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Slide to unlock

A method to pass the lock screen and get into the operating system to use it. Users are required to slide their finger on a predefined position on the lock screen. Popularised by Apple's iPhone, and Apple has patented the whole vague idea, thus making it one of the most ridiculous patents yet.

There hardly could be a method to unlock the screen by doing a certain action on the screeen itself without violating that patent. For example, Apple also claimed that a tap on the screen is a 'zero-length sliding'. Microsoft introduced a picture password unlock screen to Windows 8, but that is also essentially a slide to unlock.

Google has improved and diversified the slide to unlock on Android in many ways, so that now they look so very different. Yet, Apple wants to ban Android products for this patent or wants the manufacturers to pay a ridiculously high patent fee for this.
A Japanese man: You know, we used to slide the door to open it and get into the room.

An Apple guy: Hey, that sounds like slide to unlock to me. You violated our patent! You'd better stop using that door.

A Japanese man: We had those since thousands years ago?

An Apple guy: Doesn't matter. We've got the patent. See you in the court.
by typingcat August 15, 2012
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slide left

To ignore a call on your smartphone by sliding the red bar left instead of the green bar right to answer.
Matthew: "Dude, Carlynn just called, i totally slide lefted that bitch."
Zack: "Why, you don't want bothered?"
Matthew: "I had to watch Megan Good just to keep it up with her. I don't want that EVER again."
Zack: "Damn kid, thats harsh. But understandable."
by ThatPrettyNilla February 24, 2012
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Snidely Whiplash

Running a train on a woman while she's tied up until acute neck pain begins to set in as your dog watches on the side.
"Rick, why are you rubbing your neck and taking so much Tylenol?"

"Your dad and brothers ran a Snidely Whiplash on me last night. My top and bottom won't be the same for weeks!"
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Slidet

When someone or something is poor, fat , ugly, disfigured, degenerate, retarded ect.
Damn... look at that girl I found on YUBO, she's so slidet!
by BroderJohn October 30, 2020
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sack slide

1. An act within oral sex when the scrotum (sack) is licked continually up and down motion (sliding)

2. The act of travelling down an amusement slide on a sack
1. "I can make a guy ejaculate with a sack slide better than anyone else"

2. "Hey man, what are you up to tonight?"
"Heading over to Luna Park for the fun of a sack slide."
by Camicca October 7, 2011
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nascar slide

In PowerPoint or other presentations, the slide that shows numerous logos of customers, endorsers, partners, etc... a staple of marketing presentations intended to show how well-recognized and popular a company and its products and services are in the market.

Often dismissed by serious viewers, the slide is named for its resemblance to a NASCAR vehicle with the sponsor logos plastered all over the body.
Wow, is this NASCAR slide all their customers, or just all the logos they could find on Google Images in half an hour?
by gallifreyan September 25, 2013
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Piggie Slide

This is when a Female/male is bent over a table butt ass naked and a man runs full force into the other person raming there dick into the vigina/ass of the other person. This causes them to slide across the table. (lube the stomach with semen/ urine).
women sits on table man runs and slams his dick into her vagina so hard it causes her to slide across the table making this a piggie slide.
by Breeder69 May 8, 2014
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