sidewinder
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sidewinder¹
- /ˈsaɪd.waɪn.dɚ/ US
Where it comes from
From side + winder (“one who winds or wends, traveller”), from the sideways, looping manner in which they move.
noun sidewinders
- A North American rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes, that inhabits lowland deserts.
- A person who is untrustworthy and dangerous.
- A heavy swinging blow from the side which disables an adversary.
- A pitcher who throws sidearm.
- A type of middle-distance deep-sea trawler widely used during the 1960s and 1970s.
- A rollercoaster element where riders enter a half-loop followed by a half-corkscrew, and exit perpendicular to the direction of entry.
verb sidewinders · sidewindering · sidewindered
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Synonym of sidewind.
Similar: sidewind
Sidewinder²
proper noun Sidewinders
- Formally the AIM-9 Sidewinder, first used by the US in 1956, one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful short-range air-to-air missiles, still in use by many countries in the 2020s.
Translations
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noun untrustworthy or violent person
| Ελληνικά | κροταλίας krotalías |
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noun Snake Crotalus cerastes
| 한국어 | 사이드와인더 saideuwaindeo |
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| 日本語 | サイドワインダー Saidowaindā |
| Français | crotale cornu |
| Deutsch | Seitenwinder-Klapperschlange |
| Русский | рога́тая грему́чая змея́ rogátaja gremúčaja zmejá, рога́тый грему́чник rogátyj gremúčnik |
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title = {sidewinder},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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