Tortoise, e.g

• Highway hazard
• Hardly a speed demon
• Dawdler has to stick on second base
• Snail, e.g.
• Person who doesn't move very fast
• Tortoise, e.g.
• Snail, e.g

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach" [syn: plodder , stick-in-the-mud , slowcoach ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slowpoke or Slow Poke may refer to: Fictional characters : Slowpoke and Slowbro , fictional species of creatures in Pokémon media Slow Poke (Transformers) , a fictional character Slowpoke Rodriguez , character in Looney Tunes Slowpoke Antonio, Jerry's cousin ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also slow poke , 1848, American English from slow (adj.) + poke (n.3), the name of a device, like a yoke with a pole, attached to domestic animals such as pigs and sheep to keep them from escaping enclosures. Bartlett (1859) calls it "a woman's word."