Nintendo slider
n.— «“He’s got the Nintendo slider,” [Torii] Hunter said of [Jeff] Nelson. “I wasn’t trying to swing for the fence. I made contact and the ball went out. I don’t know how.”» —“M’s get slammed” by Jim Cour in Seattle The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) July 6, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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