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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.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of slider1

First recorded in 1520–30; 1930–35 slider for def. 2; slide + -er 1
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With his fastball sitting around 95 mph, and a tantalizing combination of sliders and changeups keeping Padres hitters off balance, Sheehan gave up just one run while striking out six batters in his big-league return.

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The boy racially abused Mr Kohli, attacked him and slapped him in the face with a slider shoe, while the girl encouraged the assault and laughed as she filmed it on her phone.

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“If he could command that fastball on both sides of the plate, and present that slider as a strike, it should be a good outing for him.”

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The boy racially abused Mr Kohli, attacked him and slapped him in the face with a slider shoe while the girl encouraged the assault and laughed as she filmed it on her phone.

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He also had a good curve and a decent slider.

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