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Sidewinder

//ˈsaɪd.waɪn.dɚ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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.
Noun
  1. 1
    A North American rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes, that inhabits lowland deserts.
  2. 2
    small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who is untrustworthy and dangerous. slang
  4. 4
    air-to-air missile with infrared homing device wordnet
  5. 5
    A heavy swinging blow from the side which disables an adversary. dated, slang
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  1. 6
    A pitcher who throws sidearm. colloquial
  2. 7
    A type of middle-distance deep-sea trawler widely used during the 1960s and 1970s.
  3. 8
    A rollercoaster element where riders enter a half-loop followed by a half-corkscrew, and exit perpendicular to the direction of entry.
Verb
  1. 1
    Synonym of sidewind.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From side + winder (“one who winds or wends, traveller”), from the sideways, looping manner in which they move.

Etymology 2

From side + winder (“one who winds or wends, traveller”), from the sideways, looping manner in which they move.

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