n.
Pronunciation: ' s ī d- ˌ w ī n-d ə r
Function: noun
Date: 1840
1 : a heavy swinging blow from the side
2 : a small pale-colored desert rattlesnake ( Crotalus cerastes ) of the southwestern U.S. that moves by thrusting its body diagonally forward in a series of flat S-shaped curves
sidewinder