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The slider

If you’re a baseball fan, a slider is a type of pitch that tails laterally down through the batting zone.  Basically, it is a curveball, not horizontally left to right, but vertically down and to one side.

If you’re a baseball runner, you might be sliding into home plate to avoid being tagged out. You’d be a slider. If you’re a kid, you could be called a slider by sliding on the winter ice. Luge racers are called sliders.  In the summer, you could slide down a hill on your butt – becoming a slider.  

If you’re a radio or TV slider, you would be a knob that slides left-to-right or up-down to change the volume or station, rather than in a circular motion.

If you’re a door, say to a patio that slides to open or close, you’d be called a slider.

If you’re in a restaurant, you might order a dish of sliders, small little burgers served in four's. Also they are served as Hor d oeuvres.  Usually overcooked, they are often dry and tasteless.  

If you’re sharp, you might wonder where they got that silly term, slider.

And thus... 
If you’re the most popular turtle in the USA and much of the world you are in fact called a slider, perhaps the red-eared variety or the pond version.  Its dome is called a carapace.  This is exactly the shape of those little burgers in the restaurant.  Thus, the name.  

So, now you know.  Billions live their entire lives scarcely aware of this critical information.  😊

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