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
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 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
Rudder wouldn’t let me sideslip, and even at low speed with flaps down and no power the blasted thing wanted to stick its nose up.
From "Code Name Verity" 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
Over the Delaware River one afternoon last week a plane, sweeping for a landing, sideslipped, twirled awkwardly down to death.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last time you sideslipped into a barrel while hanging ten: Last weekend in front of my house-backside, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years ago this month, Premier Luang Pitul Songgram sideslipped tiny Thailand into war with Great Britain and the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
She tipped and sideslipped around the big tree and dropped the pigeon.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
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
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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