Usually means: Snake known for distinctive movement.
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  1. sidewinder: Merriam-Webster
  2. sidewinder, sidewinder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sidewinder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sidewinder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sidewinder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sidewinder, sidewinder: Wordnik
  7. sidewinder: Wiktionary
  8. sidewinder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sidewinder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sidewinder: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sidewinder: Dictionary.com
  12. sidewinder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Sidewinder (EP), Sidewinder (Elitch Gardens), Sidewinder (Hersheypark), Sidewinder (Mastertronic video game), Sidewinder (band), Sidewinder (comics), Sidewinder (missile), Sidewinder (video game), Sidewinder, The Sidewinder (composition), The Sidewinder (song), The Sidewinder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sidewinder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sidewinder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sidewinder: Rhymezone
  17. Sidewinder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sidewinder: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sidewinder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sidewinder: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sidewinder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sidewinder: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sidewinder: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)

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noun:  A North American rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes, that inhabits lowland deserts.
noun:  (slang) A person who is untrustworthy and dangerous.
noun:  (slang, dated) A heavy swinging blow from the side which disables an adversary.
noun:  (baseball, colloquial) A pitcher who throws sidearm.
noun:  A type of middle-distance deep-sea trawler widely used during the 1960s and 1970s.
noun:  Formally the AIM-9 Sidewinder, first used by the US in 1956, one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful short-range air-to-air missiles, still in use by many countries in the 2020s.

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