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

In the event that you do have leftovers, use them to make post-Thanksgiving turkey sliders.

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The result: an interactive simulation that showed currents moving over a wing, with a slider allowing him to move the wing, change the currents and lift the plane into the air.

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After feasting on a diet of meatballs at home, they are then faced with curveballs and sliders that move with far more ferocity as soon as they go on the road.

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“He went curve and slider,” Walk-Green said of his first at-bat.

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The first came when Ortiz spiked a slider in the dirt to open the second inning against the Seattle Mariners.

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