stragglernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈstræɡ.lər/us/ˈstræɡ.lɚ/a person or animal that is last in a group to do something or the last to get to or leave a place:
We watched the last of the stragglers come in, three hours after the first runner.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- slowpoke
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- struggle
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