choose/pick sides

: to select freely and after consideration

: to decide on especially by vote : elect

: to have a preference for

: to pierce, penetrate, or break up with a pointed instrument

: to remove bit by bit

: to remove covering or adhering matter from

: a blow or stroke with a pointed instrument

: the act or privilege of choosing or selecting : choice

: the best or choicest one

: a heavy wooden-handled iron or steel tool pointed at one or both ends — compare mattock

: toothpick

: picklock

: to throw or thrust with effort : hurl

: to throw (a shuttle) across the loom

: the act of pitching or throwing

: something thrown

: a throw of the shuttle

: the right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body

: one of the halves of the animal body on either side of the median plane

: a cut of meat including that about the ribs of one half of the body

: situated on the side

: of or relating to the side

: directed toward or from the side

: to agree with : support

: to be side by side with

: to set or put aside : clear away

: swaggering or arrogant manner : pretentiousness