# slow-walk

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.

## Etymology
Attested since 1973 in Southern dialects of American English; prominent since the late 1990s. Thought by William Safire to derive from a Tennessee term for the walking gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse, which is generally called "flat walk", but sometimes a "slow walk".

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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