crawl
noun/krɔːl/
/krɔːl/
- [singular] a very slow speed
- The traffic slowed to a crawl.
- The traffic was moving at a slow crawl.
- Westbound traffic was down to a crawl.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- slow
- at a crawl
- be down to
- slow down to
- slow to
- …
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- (often the crawl)[singular, uncountable] a fast swimming stroke that you do lying on your front moving one arm over your head, and then the other, while kicking with your feet
- a swimmer doing the crawl
- He struck out across the pool in a powerful crawl.
Word OriginMiddle English: of unknown origin; possibly related to Swedish kravla and Danish kravle.
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