Definitions

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  • verb idiomatic (transitive) To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.
  • verb transitive To punish, to chastise.

Etymologies

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1962, US dialect, presumably North or South Carolina. Unknown origin.

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Examples

  • He can certainly go too far, as we've seen in Afghanistan, even though he has begun a slow-walk withdrawal which does not match the complete withdrawal from Iraq.

    William Bradley: Darwinian: Obama Goes Post-Iraq in Oz, Republicans Race to the Past William Bradley 2011

  • Part of the budget situation solution is punted to a "super committee" -- one that will provide fossil fuel lobbyists an ideal setting to get committee members to slow-walk cuts to fossil energy welfare.

    Mike Casey: Message Indiscipline and a Missed Opportunity for Clean Energy Mike Casey 2011

  • And the science types like Hamsher and Greenwald called Obama on his perfidy months before most people were willing to go that far, predicting for example that he would slow-walk meaningful reform to death, that he would use others as proxys for his real agenda, that deals would be made and only later acknowledged – and that grudgingly – as the details of those deals became increasingly public and clear.

    Matthew Yglesias » Fish White House Logic On Public Option Revival 2010

  • We continue to slow-walk ourselves into global catastrophe, as now action on climate change is absolutely off the table.

    This I may possibly believe 2010

  • Part of the budget situation solution is punted to a "super committee" -- one that will provide fossil fuel lobbyists an ideal setting to get committee members to slow-walk cuts to fossil energy welfare.

    Mike Casey: Message Indiscipline and a Missed Opportunity for Clean Energy Mike Casey 2011

  • Fox et al US media slow-walk without mentioning the GOP Teaparty Terrorist Crime Family who called for this murder.

    Congresswoman, Twelve Others Shot In Arizona 2011

  • Does Kappes reach out to Feinstein to block or slow-walk a probe?

    Invisible Footsteps | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • But when it comes to data about what's going on under the surface, some marine researchers are fed up with NOAA's slow-walk policy.

    NOAA Hoarding Key Data On Oil Spill Damage 2010

  • In a floor speech last week, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, complained that the Democratic leadership in both houses seemed to have a strategy to "slow-walk a resolution of this vexing problem" and said he'd heard "rumors" that some Democrats would be happy to do nothing and have the old law return.

    Three Senators Call For Billionaire Estate Surtax 2010

  • In a floor speech last week, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, complained that the Democratic leadership in both houses seemed to have a strategy to "slow-walk a resolution of this vexing problem" and said he'd heard "rumors" that some Democrats would be happy to do nothing and have the old law return.

    Three Senators Call For Billionaire Estate Surtax 2010

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