sidekick
[sahyd-kik]
- a close friend.
- a confederate or assistant.
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Origin of sidekick
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Contemporary Examples
Originally, Cosby was supposed to be much more of a sidekick.
If a sidekick is flamboyantly dressed in pastels or tailored velvet, he must be morally corruptible.
But he could also rescue his sidekick Brienne of Tarth from a bear.
And so, Bennett has volunteered himself to be Lapid's sidekick, in return for no meaningful progress on the peace process.
Playing an aging superhero named Merman (with sidekick Barnacle Boy), Borgnine takes on the “champion of the deep.”
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Historical Examples
It's even more interesting that his sidekick is a crooked electronics engineer or scientist.
The Flying StingareeHarold Leland Goodwin
sidekick
- informal a close friend or follower who accompanies another on adventures, etc
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Word Origin and History for sidekick
n.
also side-kick, "companion or close associate," 1901, also side-kicker (1903), American English, of unknown origin. Earlier terms were side-pal (1886), side-partner (1886).
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