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offsider

American  
[awf-sahy-der, of-] / ˈɔfˈsaɪ dər, ˈɒf- /

noun

Australian.
  1. an assistant or helper.

  2. a follower or supporter of a person or cause.


offsider British  
/ ˌɒfˈsaɪdə /

noun

  1. a partner or assistant

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of offsider

First recorded in 1875–80; offside + -er 1

Example Sentences

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And it's the same as his offsider, Jessie, who was running the Instagram; he's equally the same.

From Salon Apr. 9, 2024

Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones’s offsider at Infowars, appeared to acknowledge the political homogeneity of the site when he gabbed:

From The Guardian Nov. 17, 2016

His timid and unwitting offsider, REPORT: Jessica Simpson is pregnant and rumours are swirling about who the father is, says an Australian magazine.

From Time Magazine Archive

An offsider is a bullock-drivers assistant—one who walks on the off-side of the team and flogs the bullocks on that side when occasion arises.

From The Old Bush Songs by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

And, as to a team, over gully and hill He can travel with twelve on the breadth of a quill And boss the unlucky offsider.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

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