side-mike

noun

To sing offstage or off camera in order to replace or augment the voices of performers onstage.

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Meanings

nounside-mike (third-person singular simple present side-mikes, present participle side-miking, simple past and past participle side-miked)

present singular third person side-mikes · participle present side-miking · participle past side-miked · past side-miked

  1. broadcastingTo sing offstage or off camera in order to replace or augment the voices of performers onstage.

    Later in the year, the Boswells got to Hollywood, where they eventually found work on the radio, and also worked “side-miking” for singers in talking pictures. Their voices can be heard in the 1930 picture Under Montana Skies.

    2015 May 28, R. Connor Montgomery, Old Time Blues (blog), archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020, retrieved 22 Sep 2022
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APA

side-mike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/side-mike

MLA

“side-mike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/side-mike. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “side-mike,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/side-mike.

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