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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He fouled off Snell’s fastball, changeup, curveball and slider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Four of the last five outs he’d recorded were strikeouts, with a different putaway pitch for each: slider, sinker, curveball, changeup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

Dimple snorted and reached for the last bite of her salmon slider.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

There should be a master class for Dodgers left-handed hitters to learn how to hit opposing team’s left-handed pitchers when they throw sliders and sweepers!

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

But they are also excellent spooned onto little buns, topped with cheese and baked into mushroom sliders.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Five of his pitches, all sliders, reached triple digits on the speed gun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"I incorporated that into the appetisers so I'm doing grilled elk sliders, which I think is fun."

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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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