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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sidecar
noun
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▪ A motorbike and sidecar was illuminated by light from the naked bulb inside the kitchen.
▪ And so the venture was launched as a weekend sidecar to their regular jobs.
▪ Billy Tolboys pulled up the collar of his ancient leather overcoat and hunched down even deeper into the motorcycle sidecar.
▪ Gripping the sides of the sidecar, he urged Yanto to increase the already rapid pace.
▪ I potter and practise on my newly-restored Orange Beast, my socket set in the sidecar and patience at the ready.
▪ I rode pillion & Bob in the sidecar, because the only spare helmet was too small for Bob.
▪ She'd arrived in the sidecar of Miss Brahms's current beau and her coiffure had suffered terrible punishment as a result.
Wiktionary
sidecar

n. 1 A one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space. 2 A cocktail made with cognac (or brandy), triple sec liqueur, and lemon juice.

WordNet
sidecar
  1. n. a cocktail made of orange liqueur with lemon juice and brandy

  2. conveyance consisting of a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle

Wikipedia
Sidecar (cocktail)

The sidecar is a cocktail traditionally made with cognac, orange liqueur ( Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Grand Gala or another triple sec), and lemon juice. In its ingredients, the drink is perhaps most closely related to the older brandy crusta, which differs both in presentation and in proportions of its components.

Sidecar

A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, scooter, or bicycle, producing a three-wheeled vehicle. A motorcycle with a sidecar is sometimes called a combination, an outfit, a rig or a hack.

Sidecar (disambiguation)

A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, scooter, or bicycle. Sidecar may also refer to:

  • Sidecar (company), a ride-sharing company based in San Francisco
  • Sidecar (cocktail), an alcoholic drink
  • Reinsurance sidecar, a type of insurance
  • Sidecar file, a computer file format
  • Amiga Sidecar, an expansion hardware device for the Amiga 1000 personal computer
  • Blackburn Sidecar, an early aircraft
  • Sidecar TT, a motorcycle sidecar road race
Sidecar (company)

Sidecar was a US company that provided ride-sharing services and business-to-business delivery services. It was founded in 2011 in San Francisco and closed on December 31, 2015.

Usage examples of "sidecar".

It was resting in the sidecar attached to a Russian-made Ural motorcyclejust like the one Amad had trained on in Yemen.

Outside, along the gutter, were the trishaws, the evolution of the rickshaw, a bicycle and a sidecar with the coolie pedalling.

Mario Incandenza who gets to ride along in the sidecar, carefully braced and strapped, the wind blowing his thin hair straight back off his oversized head, beaming and waving his claw at people he knows.

Commonwealth on Schtitt's old BMW, bound for Evangeline's Low-Temperature Confections in Newton Center, right at the bottom of what usually gets called Heartbreak Hill, Schtitt intense-faced and leaning forward like a skier, his white scarf whipping around and whipping Mario's face, in the sidecar, as Mario too leans way forward into their downhill flight, preparing to whoop when they bottom out.

I dismounted and stepped towards him, whereupon with a grin he sprang from the Chancellory sidecar and met me halfway.

On all the front pages were photographs of Lucius Rexford embracing his wife in the Chancellory sidecar and winking, so it seemed, at the camera, as if to indicate that all was in hand at home as well as abroad.

At first I drove solo, then with a sidecar, in which I was once going along with my codriver when it so happened that a tree came exactiv between the motorcycle and the sidecar.

I looked about then for my usual lynchers, and was surprised to see none in evidence, until I observed that the approaching motorcade was led by Stoker, and that Max was in his sidecar: the mass of studentdom had gone to Founder's Hill, I realized grimly, to watch the Shafting.

But in the case of Anastasia this foreignness was the more conspicuous for its contrast with our obscure intimacy: I had never bit Max in a sidecar, after all, or serviced him memorially, or declared to him despite myself (strange words) "I love you!

The followers had strange outfits: pup tents, pickups with campers, tiny trailers that folded out into tents on wheels, several station wagons with bedding and bandages in back, decrepit cars, a converted icecream wagon, a bread truck, a pair of ancient Harley-Davidson motorcycles with sidecars.

He rubbed up against the motorcycle so much that the red fender paint was shined as silvery as the chrome, and the conical point of the sidecar was dented in from his pushing against it.

They laughed and slouched in their sidecars or at outdoor tables, in every kind of dress.

Many forsook the grandstand and either went off on cycles of their own or climbed into the sidecars of Stoker's guards, whose vehicles were stationed all along the aisle.

Indeed, the whole scene was listless: Stoker's troopers slouched about, some asleep in their sidecars, some hunkered idly on the curb.

One of the sidecars was shaped like a wooden shoe and the other like a submarine.