Definitions

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  • noun Agent noun of slither; one who slithers.

Etymologies

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slither + -er

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Examples

  • You'd think a snake like Ex-Coach would be a champion slitherer, but the snake who slithered to victory was Tyson the Nude Mormon.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Harry Potter and the Dunghole of Tocantins. 2009

  • I do remember being coached in the rescue technique, laying boards out toward the hole or, lacking boards, slithering on my stomach to distribute the weight, with a backup slitherer at my heels.

    WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999

  • ERATO, KLIEG, PEI, SKYE, and EEL (49D: Sea slitherer) are all essential crossword answers.

    Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2009

  • There is no question of fairness with the election results, and nobody said that the venerable slitherer, Stevens is not a dishonest and rightfully digraced s.o.b. The issue is how bad the Bush Justice Department was, and how it still cries out for reform.

    Think Progress 2009

  • Titanoboa's fossilized bones were found in rock layers beneath seams of coal in Colombia's vast Cerrejon open-pit mine, along with the fossils of ancient crocodiles and super-sized turtles that the giant slitherer would have chowed down on.

    Winnipeg Sun 2009

  • The well-known slitherer is considered of special concern in Iowa because numbers are declining.

    unknown title 2009

  • His bland polemic “the animals don’t need us to be right, they need us to be effective” is a rallying cry for slitherer-outers who simply don’t want to think hard about inconvenient issues.

    2009 July « paper fruit 2009

  • His bland polemic “the animals don’t need us to be right, they need us to be effective” is a rallying cry for slitherer-outers who simply don’t want to think hard about inconvenient issues.

    going vegan, staying vegan « paper fruit 2009

  • " The septicephalic slitherer spoke plaintively, its accent unidentifiable.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • * Click on Floda, than click on serpent, (to have Floda pick up the ’slitherer’), before Virop puts the rock back down!

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

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