Definition of sideswipe
transitive verb
:to strike with a glancing blow along the side
- sideswiped a parked car
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Examples of sideswipe in a Sentence
The taxi sideswiped a parked car.
Recent Examples of sideswipe from the Web
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Out front, there was a child's play kitchen with a sink full of stagnant, reedy water and a white car whose whole front had been sideswiped and deeply dented.
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In fact, it was placed there by accident, most astronomers believe, as the product of a nearly mortal blow the Earth sustained more than 4 billion years ago, when our planet was sideswiped by a Mars-size planetesimal speeding through local space.
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According to police reports, Kennedy sideswiped a car in a parking lot in the 200 block of South Milwaukee Avenue and gave her home address to the victim, who then relayed it to responding officers.
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The van then sideswiped a car, crushing its back end, and ran over another pedestrian before crashing into the pond inside Brookville Park.
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The car went onto the right shoulder and sideswiped a 2012 Toyota Prius.
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A pickup pulling a trailer was in the oncoming lane, and Hayes sideswiped the trailer.
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Hendrix then passed the vehicle in the bike lane and came within a few feet of sideswiping a bicyclist, who was well within the bike lane, the news release said.
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A report from Louisiana State Police, Troop B, said a 2016 Toyota Corolla was heading west on I-10 near I-55 around 5 a.m. when it was sideswiped by another vehicle that fled the scene.
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First Known Use of sideswipe
1891
Definition of sideswipe
1 a
:the action of sideswiping
b
:an instance of sideswiping :a glancing blow
2
:an incidental deprecatory remark, allusion, or reference
Examples of sideswipe in a Sentence
She took a sideswipe at the senator's voting record.
Recent Examples of sideswipe from the Web
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Lane-keeping systems lowered rates of single-vehicle, sideswipe and head-on crashes of all severities by 11 percent, and crashes of those types in which there were injuries, by 21 percent, the study found.
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Lane-keeping systems lowered rates of single-vehicle, sideswipe and head-on crashes, in which there were injuries, by 21 percent.
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A man working in the 8200 block of Grandview Avenue, Arvada, June 4 reported witnessing a car sideswipe his truck that was parked on the street, damaging a side mirror, and then drive away.
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The reason for the lost business is the high number of sideswipe accidents that occur along Broadway between Benton and New York streets, because parallel parking on both sides of the street is so close to the two lanes of traffic in each direction.
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What nobody ever does at the Super Bowl is sideswipe the N.F.L. itself.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sideswipe.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of sideswipe
1857
SIDESWIPE Defined for English Language Learners
sideswipe
noun
Definition of sideswipe for English Language Learners
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: a critical remark about someone or something that is made while talking about someone or something else
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