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
It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate.
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
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
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
Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the 50th mile passed, the eagle reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She tipped and sideslipped around the big tree and dropped the pigeon.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Md., sideslipping the plane to blow the flames away from the cabin.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The legend really fits," he says, after sideslipping down the slope.
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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