🇬🇧 Slowcoach meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A slowcoach is someone who is doing something much more slowly than everyone else, like walking at a snail’s speed when the whole group is trying to get somewhere. People usually say “slowcoach” in a playful or teasing way, not to be mean, when someone is taking a long time to finish a task or to catch up.

Dad called me a slowcoach for tying my shoes too slowly, so I walked even slower just to finish the performance.

I move like a slowcoach when it’s bedtime, but like a rocket when someone mentions dessert.

During the race, I was such a slowcoach that the finish line almost packed up and went home.

Our cat is a slowcoach getting off the couch; first she stretches, then she yawns, then she rethinks her whole life.

At the museum, I turned into a slowcoach, staring at one painting so long the guide nearly put me on display too.

At the playground we raced to the ice cream van. Our slowcoach shuffled, tied a shoe and then the slowcoach crouched to watch a beetle. The slowcoach waved at a child and the slowcoach smiled, ordering a small cone. We laughed, waited, and happily shared the last scoop with our slowcoach.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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