slider

American  

[slahy-der] / ˈslaɪ dər /

noun

• sliders
  plural

1. a person or thing that slides.

2. Baseball. a pitch similar to a curveball but one in which the ball rolls or slides, rather than spins, out of the pitcher’s hand and, like a curveball, drops and veers as it approaches home plate, sharply but with less of a curve.

   Johnson’s unhittable slider made him one of the best pitchers in the history of the game.

3. any of several freshwater turtles of the genus Chrysemys, of North America, having a smooth shell usually olive brown with various markings above and yellow below: some, especially C. scripta, are raised commercially and the young sold as pets, rarely surviving to adulthood.

4. a small burger on a bun.

   beef and lamb sliders.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sliders
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of slider

First recorded in 1520–30; 1930–35 slider for def. 2; slide + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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The slider he had thrown around a quarter of the time before joining the Rays would be almost eliminated from his repertoire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Chandler Simpson turned on an 89 mph slider hanging on the inside corner of the plate and sent it soaring 344 feet down the right-field line for a home run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Menus are now less transparent by default, and a slider in Settings > Appearance > Liquid Glass lets you adjust the opacity to your liking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

He didn’t bite on the slider that missed high and outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

My fingers slipped from the handle, and I realized the door had given only an inch because it was a slider door.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

This is when panic set in, and he threw on a T-shirt and sliders, running out of his house and across the road to the house which had been struck by lightning.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Humane Society staff is also caring for about 165 horses, several ponies and red-eared sliders who are still at the sanctuary, according to the organization.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026

The two are so hyperfixated on the idea of sliders, fries and a couple of soft drinks that they’ll stop at nothing to get their hands on the perfect fast food.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2026

Batters across MLB put up a dismal .210 batting average against splitters last season, compared with .224 against sliders and sweepers and .225 against curveballs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

I step outside through the sliders he points to, but Lolo isn’t sitting in any of the chairs there.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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