slow-walk
Presumably from a horse being made to slow walk.
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- 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".
- Attested since 1962 in Southern (North and South Carolina) dialects of American English; of Unknown origin.
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