<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that slides.</li><li>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.</li><li>Example: Johnson’s unhittable slider made him one of the best pitchers in the history of the game.</li><li>any of several freshwater turtles of the genus <em>Chrysemys</em>, of North America, having a smooth shell usually olive brown with various markings above and yellow below: some, especially <em>C. scripta</em>, are raised commercially and the young sold as pets, rarely surviving to adulthood.</li><li>a small burger on a bun: beef and lamb sliders.</li></ul>