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SLIDER
Definition of SLIDER
noun
Agent noun of slide: that which slides. A potentiometer with a linearly sliding control. A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale. A sliding door. A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher.
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Where it comes from
From slide + -er. The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder". Regarding the senses about control devices or widgets: physical sliders (potentiometers serving as rheostats) predate virtual ones (elements in graphical user interfaces), and the virtual ones are so named because their concept is the abstraction of the physical ones; if more explanation on that topic is needed, it is available in the Wikipedia articles on skeuomorphs, icons, and the desktop metaphor.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLIDER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SLIDER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DEILRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SLIDER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found SLIDER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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