slider

[slahy-der]

noun

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slider¹

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

Example Sentences

Slatkin’s next project is a candle made for White Castle, with tones of pickles, onions and ketchup designed to smell like the burger chain’s popular slider.

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“He just didn’t have a great slider tonight,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

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His first pitch was a slider in the dirt.

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Birthday dinners are a tactical operation: you order the dip, I’ll handle the macaroni and cheese balls, you grab the sliders.

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We both have Parkinson’s Disease, and he spent much of a recent 45-minute phone call pushing me to battle the incurable illness the way he once battled a certain backdoor slider.

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