side-on
[sahyd-on, -awn]
- (of two objects) meeting with the sides foremost.
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- with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision: The other car struck me side-on.
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Origin of side-on
First recorded in 1905–10
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"Kept you from throwing her side-on and giving me that spill you promised," he chuckled.
Down the YellowstoneLewis R. Freeman