slidey

From slide +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈslaɪdi/
• Rhymes: -aɪdi

slidey (comparative more slidey, superlative most slidey)

1. (informal) Tending to slide or cause sliding; slippery.
   • 1998, Charles Rosen, Barney Polan's game: a novel of the 1951 college basketball scandals, page 58:

     I always prefer playing indoors on a soft, bouncy, slidey wood surface because outdoor asphalt courts release the day's heat slowly and the softened tar sucks at the bottoms of your sneakers.

   • 2007 July 15, Jon Pareles, “Sounds Dire, Droll, Dreamy and on the Edge of Kitsch”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Tunes with titles like “Mazurka Maracaibo” shimmer with countless plucked strings. Mr. Brozman deploys everything from the small Bolivian charango to a Finnish harp called the kantele, while there’s usually something slidey to carry the melody.

• Disley, sidely, yields, ylides