verb. (common).—1. To slip; to make away; to smooth; and 2. (American) = to hurry. Also SLITHERY = SLIPPERY (q.v.).
1857. T. HUGHES, Tom Brown’s School-days, II. iv. After getting up three or four feet they came SLITHERING to the ground, barking their arms and faces.
1857. C. KINGSLEY, Two Years Ago, xxiv. Gay girls SLITHERED past him, looked round at him, but in vain.
1857. TENNYSON, The Northern Cobbler, iv. Thaw once of a frosty night I SLITHER’D an’ hurted my huck.
1886. The Field, 13 Feb. You could not estimate the distance or direction to which your horse might SLITHER.
1901. W. S. WALKER, In the Blood, 244. They might ’a’ SLITHERED with your goods if you ’adn’t been so mighty sharp with your hands.
