What is "slowpoke"

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."

n. (context US Canada English) A mild insult for a person that moves slow.

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

Slowpoke is a weekly comic strip by Jen Sorensen that appears in alternative weeklies and other publications in the United States.

Slowpoke began in 1998 as a 24-page book, Slowpoke Comix #1. Later that year it became a weekly strip, in which format it has won five awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. There have been three published collections of the weekly strips. Individual Slowpoke strips have been included in several anthologies.

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 in the animated television series Tom & Jerry Kids - see List of Tom & Jerry Kids episodes

Songs:

• "Slowpoke", a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• " Slow Poke", a 1951 American country music hit song

Other uses:

• SLOWPOKE reactor, nuclear research reactor
• SLoWPoKES (Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars), star catalogue of binary pairs created by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Slowpoke (comic strip), weekly comic strip by Jen Sorensen