OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 40044

slither

/ˈslɪð.ə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ratear • reptar
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
She also had a map of the building, not that it was very large, and she'd memorized the layout. The guard station would be right around the corner, and there ought to be a counter…
[Indiana:] Wave it at anything that slithers. [Marion:] The whole place is slithering!
deslizarse
To slide.
I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slitherin…
Some snow slides recorded have exceeded a million tons and slithered down the mountain-side at a speed of 60 miles an hour.