Crossword-Solution: STRAGGLER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Straggler | n. | One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction. |
| Straggler | n. | A roving vagabond. |
| Straggler | n. | Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth. |
| Straggler | n. | Something that stands alone or by itself. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “STRAGGLER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Someone falling behind | 1 answer |
| Late arrival | 1 answer |
| One finishing a marathon in eight hours, say | 1 answer |
| One lagging behind the pack | 1 answer |
| One out of line. | 1 answer |
| Poky follower | 1 answer |
| Runt of the litter, usually | 1 answer |
| Sailor absent for 73 hours | 1 answer |
| Sheep separated from the flock. | 1 answer |
| One bringing up the rear | 2 answers |
| Snail | 10 answers |
| BRINGING ALONG | 10 answers |
| inactive person | 22 answers |
| unhasty | 29 answers |
| Waster | 30 answers |
| decelerating | 31 answers |
| BRAKING | 31 answers |
| slob | 32 answers |
| slowcoach | 35 answers |
| Scallywag | 36 answers |
| Layabout | 38 answers |
| slowing | 39 answers |
| Dawdler | 40 answers |
| slacker | 42 answers |
| shirker | 43 answers |
| Wanderer | 43 answers |
| Displaced Person | 45 answers |
| Lazybones | 47 answers |
| Slow | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with STRAGGLER (5)
But man and horse had a favourite job, When an outlaw broke from a station mob, With a right good will was the stockwhip plied, As the old horse raced at the straggler's side, And the greenhide whip such a weal would raise, We could use the whip in the droving days.
Every moment or two a straggler was added to my audience; and before I got to the head of the island I had fifteen or twenty people assembled down there under my nose.
There were quarrels, too, the men striving to push one another from the easier paths; and deeds sublime when some straggler clutched at the bole of a tree for support, and was helped onward through excruciating ways.
Lordy, but they have all marched away--every man of them--from old Colonel Byng down to the drummer boys, and here am I a straggler--that's what I am, sergeant, a straggler! I'm here when I ought to be there.
Whenever any straggler had this experience, he returned to the swamp realizing that the Cardinal of the orange orchard was almost twice his size and strength, and so startlingly red as to be a wonder.
Quotes with STRAGGLER (3)
And for God's sake, if you need to shoot make sure to release the safety ,” he murmured, as we moved across the front, careful to stick to the shadows as often as we could. So far, I hadn't seen anyone, not even zombies. It wasn't uncommon for a straggler to come along, every now and then. Lucky for us, we were remote enough that we hadn't had any major issues with any hordes locating us. The men were quick to dispatch any zombies that hung around, not willing to take the ris…
We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion... What is to-day a matter of academic speculation, begins to-morrow to move armies and pull down empires.
I feel as if I am being left out, as though I’m some straggler and people can’t quite remember to stay back for me.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1954–2021).