side-swipe

A form of sideswipe — A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously.

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Meanings

nounside-swipe (plural side-swipes)

plural side-swipes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sideswipe.
verbside-swipe (third-person singular simple present side-swipes, present participle side-swiping, simple past and past participle side-swiped)

present singular third person side-swipes · participle present side-swiping · participle past side-swiped · past side-swiped

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sideswipe.

    A semi had side-swiped my patrol car, breaking windows and destroying the driver's door.

    2007, John Richard Collier, Inside Out
    1 more example

    The author was involved in a rail accident not included in this analysis, when his train was side-swiped by a freight passing in the opposite direction, which contained derailed wagons.

    2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 52
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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