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slider

slider

8 3.5
A small sandwich served on a bun often as an appetizer
  • noun
  • /ˈslaɪdər/
  • US
translation icon : minihamburguesa
  • Can I interest you in a Kobe beef slider?
  • beef sliders
  • burger sliders
  • chicken sliders

I'm here on my kitchen floor, and today I'll be eating a sourdough baguette, some chicken sliders, some burritos.

Examples

  • Uh, I brought you some fries and the sliders that you love.

    After Ever Happy (2022)

  • The Counter served a slider with some of its signature sweet potato fries.

    Blog text (3)

  • You can get an Impossible slider, an Impossible white White Castle slider.

  • Just a couple sliders, please.

    Good Time (2017)

  • And all season long, we've got cowboy sliders.

    Eephus (2025)

  • Including the best sliders ever, which are at Pacific Grill in Tacoma.

    Blog text (21)

  • Cheeseburger sliders and shooters of the hard stuff.

    Eephus (2025)

  • On Fridays and Saturdays, the $19 fish and chips and $8 beef sliders win out with the out-of-town crowd.

    Blog text (15)

  • The small plates included a nice range of dishes from raviolis to sandwiches to sliders to falafels to salads to clam chowder.

    Blog text (3)

  • At the party, we enjoyed a variety of sliders, including beef and vegetarian options.

Synonyms

knob
vsslider
66 1.4

A rounded handle used to open or adjust things like doors and radios

moves along a track to change settings rather than being turned
adjuster
vsslider
3 3.8

A person or thing that moves something to the right position

acts as a moving control to adjust settings rather than being an agent
fader
vsslider
  • Specialized
2 4.4

A sliding control on a sound mixer that makes the sound louder or quieter

is a sliding control used across devices and software
selector switch
vsslider
1 4.6

A control you move to choose a setting on a machine

adjusts values continuously by moving rather than selecting preset options

Surface Forms

slider singular
sliders plural

Morphology

slider = slide (semi-transparent) = slide + er

The control sense (a sliding control) is transparent; the small-sandwich sense is an idiomatic extension whose connection to 'slide' is not obvious to learners.

Etymology

Slider comes from slide, meaning 'to move smoothly', so in technology a slider is a control you move to change a value, and in food a slider is a very small sandwich that many say 'slides' down easily.