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Definition of Sideswiped
1. sideswipe [v] - See also: sideswipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sideswiped
Literary usage of Sideswiped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"Then something goes wrong, because McCoy and the woman manage to get the hell
outta there, and Lamb gets sideswiped. Anyway, that's what's going around out ..."
2. Air Bag Safety: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science edited by Larry Pressler (1998)
"... left the road, entered a wooded area, and sideswiped a small tree before
striking a larger tree with a delta V of 55 mi/h (Case 02-158A 1991). ..."
3. The Technical World Magazine (1910)
"At the same tim^ the car was sideswiped by the stone abutments. The photograph
shows the situation. INDIAN METHOD OF CASTING IX the wonderland, India, ..."
4. Safety Engineering (1915)
"It sideswiped an empty car on the back track. The car of explosives burst into
flames, but an explosion did not occur. Fire was communicated to another car ..."
5. A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser, Franklin Booth (1916)
"... in which some man who would not give the road and had been "sideswiped" by
his car (Franklin being absent and his chauffeur who was out riding choleric) ..."
6. Letters from an Old Railway Official to His Son, a Division Superintendent by Charles De Lano Hine (1904)
"Then, if the throttle happens to fly open at just the wrong moment, the train
will not be sideswiped. If not trained, your -switchmen will throw every ..."
7. A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser (1916)
"... in which some man who would not give the road and had been "sideswiped" by
his car (Franklin being absent and his chauffeur who was out riding choleric) ..."
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