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: Compare cut fastball.

   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 fordef 2; slide + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“A really bad slider,” Hudson called it, saying the ball felt like “it popped out of my hand and I just couldn’t catch it.”

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Where to eat: The Beach House’s views and happy hour sliders will replenish you after your long walk.

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Yamamoto commanded his fastball with precision and snapped off an unhittable flurry of sliders, curveballs and splitters, producing a scoreless five-inning outing that was everything the Dodgers were hoping for, and then some.

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In his at-bat against Scott on Tuesday, representing the tying run, Ohtani took a slider for a called third strike.

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The White Castle slider was, for all intents and purposes, a White Castle slider.

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