sidekick
noun
a close friend.
sidekicks
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pluralof sidekick.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"Go!" shouted Ivan Deforge, and without hesitation his 300-kilo hairy sidekicks Karym and Ural leapt through a ring of fire under the dome of the Great Moscow Circus.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Petrified, she recruited two charismatic friends as alternating sidekicks: daycare owner and activist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and civil rights attorney Florynce Kennedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
From meetings with foreign leaders to the control room of a SpaceX launch, Musk's children have debuted as constant sidekicks to their father's endeavors in tech, business and now, politics.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
They’re like Boris and Natasha, if Boris and Natasha had gay sidekicks whose equally unsurprising side plot would’ve made a more thorny and altogether insightful critique of contemporary social politics.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
I think were the only people here who didn’t bring our sidekicks.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
