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

The Dodgers were getting good pitching, with Glasnow striking out four of his first five batters while pumping increased fastball velocity and generating foolish swings with his slider.

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And the side was only retired after Teoscar Hernández missed a couple of fastballs left over the heart of the plate, before eventually striking out on a slider in the dirt.

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His slider was a work-in-progress, leaving him without a reliable third pitch.

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Five others were courtesy of his slider, with the Rays coming up empty on all five swing attempts against it.

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It led to more stress for the 37-year-old Kershaw in the third, when he yielded a pair of singles to lead off the inning before getting a double play and fanning Story with a slider.

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