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The sycophant may be a slowcoach (7)

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I believe the answer is:

crawler

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'the sycophant' is the definition.
('crawler' can be a synonym of 'sycophant')

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(Other definitions for crawler that I've seen before include "Minion" , "Sycophant" , "Toady" , "Internet search program" , "Obsequious person" .)

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