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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slither
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a snake slithers somewhere (=moves there)
▪ Just feet from me, a green snake slithered silently across the path.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ He let it slither down the roof to the building's guttering.
▪ So do I. I slither down the muddy steps leading off the Mudchute embankment.
▪ They must be young animals, he told himself as he slithered down.
▪ He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down on to the flat surface of it.
▪ Nell pressed her arms and legs outwards, slithering down in short movements.
▪ He and the two Rottweilers slither down the corridor.
▪ Brambles caught at them as they slithered down.
▪ She hardly felt the cuts and scratches as she slithered down the rocky path to the Cove.
out
▪ But they would slither out again, and they would probably do so quite quickly.
▪ Toos would kick the wall next to the sink, and roaches would slither out of the dust and the cracked plaster.
▪ Vines slithered out of the brush.
▪ They know that animals slithered out of the sea and billions of years later evolved into pandering politicians.
▪ Rolling clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky while brilliant sheaths of flame slithered out of every window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As Katie fell asleep her book fell from her hands and slithered off the bed.
▪ The snake slithered away through the grass.
▪ Tom slithered down the muddy bank into the water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A wet pair of panty hose slithered over his ear.
▪ After four or five testers had slithered through this interface maze, the correct solution would usually emerge.
▪ Bath could not hit their top gear of late as they too slithered around in the wet.
▪ For he was not a man who could slither into any shape required of him.
▪ He let it slither down the roof to the building's guttering.
▪ The air is filled with a dingo's howl, the footpaths alive with the poisonous snakes on their slithering nocturnal hunt.
▪ They did so simply by reading the fine print and slithering through the loophole that yawned, obvious and inviting, therein.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
slither

slither \slith"er\ (sl[i^][th]"[~e]r), v. i. [Cf. G. schlittern, LG. schliddern. See slide.] To slide; to glide. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slither

early 15c., variant of Middle English slidder "to slip, slide," from Old English slidrian "to slip, slide on a loose slope," a frequentative form of slidan "to slide" (see slide (v.)). For spelling change, compare gather. Meaning "to walk in a sliding manner" is attested from 1848. In reference to reptile motion, attested from 1839. Related: Slithered; slithering.

slither

"slithering movement," 1861, from slither (v.).

Wiktionary
slither

vb. 1 To move about smoothly and from side to side. 2 (context intransitive English) To slide

WordNet
slither

v. to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly; "They slid through the wicket in the big gate" [syn: slide]

Wikipedia
Slither (song)

"Slither" is a song by American hard rock band Velvet Revolver, featured on their 2004 debut album Contraband. When it was released as the second single from the album in 2004, "Slither" topped both the American Billboard Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts, as well as reaching number 56 on the main Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. The song won the 2005 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance.

Slither (album)

Slither is the fourth full-length album by the American metalcore band Earth Crisis, released in 2000. With this album, Earth Crisis returned to Victory Records after releasing Breed the Killers on Roadrunner Records in 1998. The album ventured into the nu metal sound influenced in '90s metal bands Korn, Slipknot, Biohazard and Machine Head.

The album cover was designed by the artist Dave McKean.

Slither (1973 film)

Slither is a 1973 comedy film starring James Caan. It was directed by Howard Zieff.

This was the first screenplay by W. D. Richter, who went on to adapt stories like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Big Trouble in Little China for the screen and directed the cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Caan plays an ex- convict, one of several people trying to find a stash of stolen money. Peter Boyle and Sally Kellerman co-star.

Slither (The Secret Circle)

"Slither" is the 5th episode of the first season of the CW television series The Secret Circle, and the series' 5th episode overall. It was aired on October 13, 2011. The episode was written by Dana Baratta and it was directed by Liz Friedlander.

Slither (2006 film)

Slither is a 2006 American science fiction- comedy horror film written and directed by James Gunn in his directorial debut, and starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, and Michael Rooker. The film was produced by Paul Brooks and Eric Newman. The film has similar themes and concepts as the 1986 B-movie Night of the Creeps.

Slither was a box office bomb which received generally positive reviews from critics and has since become a cult film.

Slither

Slither may refer to:

  • Slithering, a form of limbless terrestrial locomotion

In film and television:

  • Slither (1973 film), a comedy directed by Howard Zieff
  • Slither (2006 film), a comedy horror film directed by James Gunn
  • "Slither" (Sliders), an episode of Sliders
  • "Slither" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

In music:

  • Slither (album), an album by Earth Crisis
  • "Slither" (song), a song by Velvet Revolver
  • "Slither", a song by Metallica from ReLoad
  • "Slither", a song by Opeth from Heritage

In other media:

  • Slither (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics mutant villain
  • Slither (video game), a 1982 arcade game, or its ColecoVision port
  • Slither.io, an online video game
Slither (comics)

Slither (Aaron Salomon) is a fictional character, a snake-like mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in Captain America Annual #4 and was created by writer/artist Jack Kirby. Salomon is a mutant who's head and neck resembles a snake and has green reptile skin.

Slither first appeared as part of Magneto's latest version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants along with Burner, Lifter, Peepers, and Shocker. The Brotherhood attacked Captain America, but were defeated. The five mutants later become known as Mutant Force, facing off against the Defenders and later on the Hulk. Slither later worked for Viper and was a member of the Serpent Society for a brief time.

Usage examples of "slither".

She lets me furl her around for a while, and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like, and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent before she calls a halt, slithers off the bed, corrects her clothing, brushes her hair, changes her shoes, powders her nose, slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch.

The seneschal leveled his gaze at Gwydion, and the shade felt something cold and inhuman slither across his mind.

CHAPTER I FROM the lounge car of the Shore Express, Lamont Cranston watched the meadows slither by as the speedy streamliner ate up the last few miles of its run to Seaview City.

The vague Morphean images rose like wisps of smoke through my memory, sinuously curling away from me as real smoke will writhe and slither upward on a draft, dissipating with a speed directly related to my determination to form them into solid meaningful pictures.

He listened to the body slither and knock deeper and deeper, then turned and continued up, certain the spongework would lead him out of the underworld into the sun again.

ECM and spoofer, bulging with additional supply containers, and using Tahn codes broken after the debacle around Durer, took weeks to slither through the Tahn Empire.

Up to four of them could put their tongues in there at the same time, or a tongue could slither in beside a cock.

She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.

The result is that outlaw dealers slither from one gun show to the next, falsely claiming to be collectors or one-time sellers.

Tired women wended their way home replete with milk poured from honeypots, still tingling from the voluptuous dry slither of snakes and remembering the powerful surge of snake muscle, the kiss of a forked tongue, earth broken open to receive the seed, a crown of vine leaves, the eternal female cycle of birth and death.

He was talking to Miss Bradley, who, seated on the bank above, plump and big and wet, looked as if she might roll and slither in the water almost like one of the slithering sealions in the Zoo.

Like many an Indian or Mexican gal used to sleeping on floor pallets, Kinipai bounced with her haunches, with bare heels braced to either side of his hips as she braced her little palms against his hairy chest to slither up and down his beanpole in a delightful but sort of teasing way.

It didn't surprise her to find Pierce's hands at her throat as he undid the chain, lifted it away, and held it out to Brandon The aquamarines sparkled in the overhead lighting as Pierce let the necklace slither into Brandon's open palm.

It didn't surprise her to find Pierce's hands at her throat as he undid the chain, lifted it away, and held it out to Brandon The aquamarines sparkled in the overhead lighting as Pierce let the necklace slither into Brandon's open palm.

There was a slither ofsteel over steel and Aboli's blade stopped an inch from his nipple asit showed through the white shirt.