curbside

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adjective

Adjacent to the curb.

“Airlines now often limit curbside check-in to select passengers.”

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Meanings

adjectivecurbside (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAdjacent to the curb.

    Airlines now often limit curbside check-in to select passengers.

nouncurbside (plural curbsides)

plural curbsides

  1. A location next to the curb.

    He parked behind her, then approached Bland's Hyundai slowly along the curbside, leaning in to speak to her through the open passenger window.

    2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 313
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    The City Council unanimously passed a bill yesterday that would sharply increase fines for people who steal recyclable material from curbsides […].

    2007 September 26, Ray Rivera, “City Council Increases Fines for Theft of Recyclable Trash”, in New York Times

    Synonyms: kerbside

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA location next to the curb.

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Origin

  1. Englishcurb
  2. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
  3. Proto-Germanic*sīdaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*sīdǭ
  5. Old Englishsīde
  6. Middle Englishside
  7. Englishside
  8. Englishcurbside

From curb + -side.

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APA

curbside. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curbside

MLA

“curbside.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curbside. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curbside,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curbside.

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