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

Hand’s out pitch is his slider, and he throws it roughly 50 percent of the time.

From Washington Post

The menu also has easy sliders that turn any event into a tracked conversion.

From Search Engine Land

The Halo app also turns your body scans into a 3-D rendering, complete with a slider to see what you’d look like with more, or less, fat.

From Washington Post

There were handy built-in shelves, kitchen sliders, and overhead space, but we maxed it out for a ten-day trip where we experienced cold and hot temps.

From Outside Online

Tap on it again and you’ll see a slider that you can drag to dial up or down the intensity.

From Popular-Science

Yeah,” he said, “they called that pitch the freezing slider, because it just froze Horton solid.

From The Daily Beast

“Guy Fieri served me my first pork slider w/cole slaw ever, from a trailer booth at our county fair,” posted a second.

From The Daily Beast

Use the slider to see how the London Borough of Newham has changed following the construction of the Olympic Park.

From The Daily Beast

While White Castle created the slider back in 1921, this mini, flat burger has become ubiquitous in more recent times.

From The Daily Beast

A slider's performance, we wrote in March, is a "poisonous influence."

From The Daily Beast

This wind-chest with the slider stop control is about all that is left to us of the old form of key action.

From Project Gutenberg

A match safe that will deliver only one match at a time is constructed of two parts, the box or holder and the base, with slider.

From Project Gutenberg

A new subspecies of the slider turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila,Mxico.

From Project Gutenberg

The moving end of the quartz is attached to a small boxwood slider working on a tubular girder or between wires.

From Project Gutenberg

I'll make a longer board slide, and I'll put the lower end in a pan of water, so when Slider slides down he'll make a splash!

From Project Gutenberg