slither

verb

1. (intransitive)To move about smoothly and from side to side.

   “[Indiana:] Wave it at anything that slithers. [Marion:] The whole place is slithering!”

   “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 about the height of a half-wall looking out over the corridor with only a bulletin board on the opposite wall. She crouched down, and slithered left.”

2. (intransitive)To slide.

   “Some snow slides recorded have exceeded a million tons and slithered down the mountain-side at a speed of 60 miles an hour.”

   “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 slithering through inbetween^([sic]) my fingers.”

adj

1. (archaic)Slithery; slippery.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A limestone rubble.
2. (countable, nonstandard, uncountable)A sliver.