— John A. Holm, DictionaryofBahamianEnglish, p. 186, 1982
The train pulled into Kings Cross and Sammy jumped up. “Gotta slide, this is my stop.[”] — Paolo Hewitt, Heaven’sPromise, p. 125, 1999
to ride a wave US
— Ross Olney, TheYoungSportsman’sGuidetoSurfing, p. 88, 1965
▶ slide your jive to talk freely CANADA,1946 Teen slang, reported by a Toronto newspaper in 1946, and reported as “obsolescent or obsolete” by Douglas Leechman, 1959.