DRAGGER Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

dragger

noun

ˈdra-gər

Definition of dragger

as in snail

someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others we quickly left the draggers behind and sprinted up the hill

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Recent Examples of dragger For better or worse, Hill is too much of a gentleman to call me a knuckle-dragger. — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2021 Do the foot draggers in the legislature not know or understand the present and future risk? — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024 So, if your foot-dragger is, say, a phone-hating introvert with pandemic anxiety, then the call to the pediatrician isn't the thing to delegate. — The Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020 Take the Cowboys’ scoring drive just before the half, when Dalton found Gallup on a 19-yard toe-dragger down the left sideline … and then on a back-shoulder fade in the left corner of the end zone to take a 20-17 lead into halftime. — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2020

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snail

Noun

Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 3 July 2026
The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.

— Mohsin Kamal, New York Times, 25 June 2026

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