noun
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a sideways skid, as of a motor vehicle
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a sideways and downward movement towards the inside of a turn by an aircraft in a sharp bank
verb
Etymology
Origin of sideslip
Example Sentences
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It was almost as though, if he moved fast enough and squeezed in enough events, he might sideslip the 18th of June altogether and proceed to the next golden stage, untouched and untallied.
From Time ● Jun. 19, 2012
As Pilot John Andrews banked for a last low turn over a corner of the field, a sharp up-current caught one wing, threw the plane into a sideslip, a crash.
From Time Magazine Archive
A team of 30 scientists, including several "Star Wars" weapons-system researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, perfected USA's unique rudders at bow and stern that help prevent sideslip.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a parked Chinook from Singapore fires up its engines, two Australian army Hueys swoop in a few feet off the ground and sideslip into their designated parking slots.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was ready to throw her plane into a sideslip if a searchlight caught her, a flight maneuver that allows you to dive very fast and steeply without spinning.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
We rocketed down the trough, then sideslipped a three-foot snowdrift on the edge of a muddy trail for the last two miles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
Looking out of a window, I saw earth, sky, planes above, planes below, all mixed with ack-ack puffs as our pilot twisted, turned, sideslipped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like many another helicopterphile, Igor Sikorsky soon sideslipped into airplane design.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unsettled earth sideslipped violently and became waterlogged as the sea penetrated it.
From Time Magazine Archive
She tipped and sideslipped around the big tree and dropped the pigeon.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Later, as he began sideslipping in the powdery dust of the massif's slopes, Ski Buff Schmitt pretended that he was slaloming.
From Time Magazine Archive
The planes he flew made 42 miles an hour and the only instrument was a piece of string tied to the undercarriage; if it did not tail straight back, the plane was sideslipping.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The legend really fits," he says, after sideslipping down the slope.
From Time Magazine Archive
By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in.
From Time Magazine Archive
Koontz joined them, incredulously surveying the damage that Bernabe, by parking in the mud, getting stuck, rocking his vehicle, sideslipping and whatnot, had done.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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