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slidey en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈslaɪdi/

Etymology

From slide + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.
   • I always prefer playing indoors on a soft, bouncy, slidey wood surface because outdoor asphalt courts release the day's heat slowly and the softened tar sucks at the bottoms of your sneakers. 1998, Charles Rosen, Barney Polan's game: a novel of the 1951 college basketball scandals, page 58:
   • Tunes with titles like “Mazurka Maracaibo” shimmer with countless plucked strings. Mr. Brozman deploys everything from the small Bolivian charango to a Finnish harp called the kantele, while there’s usually something slidey to carry the melody. 2007 July 15, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Dire, Droll, Dreamy and on the Edge of Kitsch”, in New York Times:

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