Crossword clues for sidekick
sidekick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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).
Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) An assistant to another person, especially to one's superior or more important person.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A sidekick is a slang expression for a close companion or colleague (not necessarily in fiction) who is actually, or generally regarded as, subordinate to the one he accompanies. Some well-known fictional sidekicks are Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes' Doctor Watson, The Lone Ranger's Tonto, The Green Hornet's Kato, Shrek's Donkey and Batman's Robin.
Sidekick primarily refers to:
- Sidekick, a close companion who is generally regarded as internship/subordinate to the one he accompanies
- Side kick, a martial arts kicking technique
Sidekick may also refer to:
Sidekick is a 2005 Canadian independent film in the comic-book/fantasy genre. Tech support nerd and comic-book fan Norman Neale discovers that suave co-worker Victor Ventura has telekinetic powers. Neale trains Ventura with the intention of creating a super-hero, but Ventura has other uses for his powers in mind.
Sidekick is a Canadian animated television comedy series created by Todd Kauffman (former co-director of Total Drama, and later co-creator of Grojband and Looped) and Joey So. The series first aired in Canada on September 3, 2010 on YTV. In the United States, the series premiered on Cartoon Network alongside Almost Naked Animals on June 13, 2011 and also premiered in the UK and Ireland on CBBC on September 2014. The series is based on the original shorts originally titled The Not-So-Superheroic Adventures of Sidekick aired as part of the 2005 TV series, Funpak. The series ended on September 14, 2013.
Usage examples of "sidekick".
Besides this commotion, plus being excited at seeing real live hillbilly stars such as Country Boy Eddie and his sidekick Butter Bean in person, was it any wonder that nurse Ethylene Buck was all atwitter that night?
It seemed that the little one and her sidekick were out to destroy Balthazar as well.
And I had her data from the Christer medical files loaded into my sidekick.
To his right, Detective Sergeant Tony Dowling, his sidekick in the detective division of Store Street Garda station, was conferring with Detective Sergeant Kate Hamilton, one of the new breed of women detectives in the Garda Siochana being trained in serious crime investigations.
My sidekick did chirp then, but it was Sharifa, my about-to-be ex-lover.
He usually plays older brothers, blushing patsies, jumpy sidekicks, all-smiles Ivy Leaguers.
If Ingryl was going to have his Sword of Spells, his forgotten and taken-for-granted baronial sidekick was going to have what was his, too: the Dwaer.
Besides Tanner, Kate and their four kids, there was eighty-year-old Burt Shaw and his longtime sidekick and Circle S cook, Cyrus Brewster, who had been the foreman on the Bar M when Chase had been small.
Yes, and since Gregory and his sidekick Jones were such weapons nuts, let it be said that it was Matilda tanks, and Stens and Brens and Enfield rifles with fixed bayonets which did them in.
Sextius and his sidekick might have taken us seriously when we issued that old cliched invitation, do drop round for a drink some time.
I experienced firsthand the glamorous crimefighting life of the Shade and Nolan in a way no one else ever had, not even the Shade's loyal Negro sidekick, Busta!
While Hands berated himself for not foreseeing the Queen's intention, I took Sidekick, a well-named but surefooted mule, from his stall.
The old-timers who have hidden behind grass skirts, the ones with the mustaches, with the broken accents, the Chile Charlie types, the Sancho Panzas of America, los tontos, sidekicks of Zorro.
Don't let anyone but De Groot or his sidekick hold up the line, tell 'em to get off and we'll call 'em back.
There were half a dozen men in the room, armed and waiting, and they included, inter alia, General Maka Khan, his knife-toting sidekick Imam Shah, and that crazy Akali who'd denounced Jeendan at the durbar.