side-on

[ sahyd-on, -awn ]

adjective

1. (of two objects) meeting with the sides foremost.

adverb

1. with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision:

   The other car struck me side-on.

Word History and Origins

Origin of side-on¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

They had swung side-on as the hole opened, and her glance focused itself upon the smaller of the two.

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I caught sight of the old man side-on and I saw he was hurt by something more than a punch.

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Flying, they look extremely like May flies, being carried side-on to the wind.

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"Kept you from throwing her side-on and giving me that spill you promised," he chuckled.

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I was loath to do ut, but I wint round an' swung into the jaw side-on an' shifted ut a half pace to the lef'.

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