sidewinder

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  1. noun A small rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) of the southwest United States and Mexico that moves by a distinctive lateral looping motion of its body and has two hornlike scaly projections above its eyes.
  2. noun A powerful swinging punch delivered from the side.

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  • Made sense because he was pretty sure that the woman in white, walking through the museum library scene like a sidewinder snake, had been in the hallway outside the apartment on Elizabeth Street. —  The Twelfth Card
  • Thompson stepped quickly out of the alley, swinging the club like a baseball bat, fast as a sidewinder striking. —  The Twelfth Card
  • Walking back and forth, back and forth, like the sidewinder. —  The Twelfth Card
  • Sesame hissed and writhed like a sidewinder to go there too. —  Up In A Heaval
  • You have more names than the sidewinder, which is also a snake Wickard Cole was bitter. —  118 - The Devil's Black Rock
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/ˈsaɪdwaɪndər/
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