Crossword clues for sideswipe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously. 2 A catty or sarcastic remark. vb. To give a blow with the side, as to strike with the side of a car when turning.
WordNet
v. strike from the side
Wikipedia
Sideswipe is the name of several characters in the Transformers universes. Because of trademark restrictions, toys of the character are sometimes marketed as SideSwipe.
Sideswipe or Sideswiped may refer to:
- Sideswipe (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Sideswipe (Gladiators), a Gladiators event
- Sideswipe (Transformers), a character from the Transformers franchise
- Sideswiped in a collision, see Side collision
Usage examples of "sideswipe".
Other wags appeared to be undamaged except for numerous sideswipes, perhaps left by their drivers because they had run out of fuel.
The truck sideswiped a tree stump, and the bumper ripped off from the chassis, the impact slamming his head against the roof.
Kamahl rushed headlong into the forest, crashing through underbrush, sideswiping trees, and vaulting over fallen logs.
Very amusing: at one gravelgroaning sharp turn I sideswiped a parked car but said to myself telesticallyand, telepathically (I hoped), to its gesticulating ownerthat I would return later, address Bird School, Bird, New Bird, the gin kept my heart alive but bemazed my brain, and after some lapses and losses common to dream sequences, I found myself in the reception room, trying to beat up the doctor, and roaring at people under chairs, and clamoring for Mary who luckily for her was not there.
Stealing roadblocks from the police, we closed off a stretch of the 405 Freeway near Long Beach one Wednesday night, illuminated the site with flares, and three at a time pretended to be on a bumper car course, speeding forward, throwing the vehicles into reverse, sideswiping whichever car we could.
Lawes said it could be an exciting one, too, especially if the person with the real steering wheel was drunk and having close shaves with oncoming trucks and sideswiping parked cars and so on.
Three weeks before the shooting of Melvin Riggs, John Reddy was driving his glaring acid-green Cadillac north on the Millersport Highway when a carload of stoned guys in their twenties from South Buffalo drew up dangerously close behind him in a black Trans Am, yelling insults, hitting the horn in an effort to goad John Reddy into racing with them, but John Reddy wasn't in mood and gave them the finger and the Trans Am retaliated by almost ramming his rear bumper, the two cars traveling at about seventy an hour on the three-lane highway, across which thin, wraithlike streams snow were being blown, John Reddy sped up to try to escape, but of this was what the driver of the Trans Am wanted, now swinging around to pass the Cadillac close as if to sideswipe it, the two cars along, shuddering in the wind, as other vehicles braked, swerved to avoid them, fled bumping and bouncing onto the shoulders of the road.
Whatever the cause, the two ran a stop sign and sideswiped a car driven by the United Brethren minister.