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Sidewinder

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sidewinder
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 ina series of flat S-shaped curves.
From side +‎ winder (“one who winds or wends, traveler”), from the sideways, looping manner in which they move.