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Write sloppily, erasing the initial stroke (5)

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I believe the answer is:

crawl

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'stroke' is the definition.
(crawl is a kind of stroke)

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(Other definitions for crawl that I've seen before include "fawn" , "Unusually slow rate of movement" , "Grovel" , "Suck up to" , "Way of swimming" .)

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