offsider
Americannoun
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an assistant or helper.
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a follower or supporter of a person or cause.
noun
Etymology
Origin of offsider
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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