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▪ I. ˈside-swipe, n.
[f. the vb.; cf. also side-wipe.]
1. A glancing blow from or on the side (esp. of a motor vehicle). Chiefly U.S.
1917Dialect Notes IV. 400 He struck it with a side⁓swipe. 1935Evening Sun (Baltimore) 7 Mar. 25/3 A few days ago we said there is no such word as sideswipe in the dictionary... Side-wiping puts the shine on the car—side-swiping takes it off. 1964D. Solomon Accidents on Main Rural Highways i. 2 Nearly half of all accident involvements were either rear-end collisions or same-direction sideswipes. 1968Autocar 14 Mar. 24/3 With adjustable front seats there is weakness in sideswipe. 1977Time 24 Jan. 2/3 (Advt.), The ESV's have proved their life-saving value in head-on and rear-end collisions, side-swipes and roll-overs.
2. A passing jibe or verbal attack; an indirect rebuke or criticism.
1924Kipling Prophet & Country in Debits & Credits (1926) 193 A side-swipe at the practically non-existent birth-rate. 1959Sunday Times 29 Nov. 25/6 Wolf Mankowitz has reshaped his satire on show business... A few side-swipes are allowed. 1964Ann. Reg. 1963 26 He allowed himself one side-swipe at the security services, declaring that ‘the {pstlg}60 million spent on these services under the right hon. gentleman's premiership have been less productive..than the security services of the News of the World.’ 1977M. Walker National Front vii. 179 Martin Webster..again warned of the enemy within in an article..which included a series of side-swipes against ‘the trimmers, the popularity-seekers and moderates’.
▪ II. ˈside-swipe, v. Chiefly U.S.
[side n.1]
trans. To strike (something) a glancing blow on or with the side (esp. of a motor vehicle).
1904Philadelphia Even. Tel. 12 Nov. 16 The west-bound St. Louis Express, while pulling on to a siding, was sideswiped by the east-bound Pittsburg Limited. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 15 July 2/4 Five persons were injured..when a motor car..overturned on the boulevard, after sideswiping a stalled car. 1938D. Baker Young Man with Horn i. v. 41 No sidewalks there, and one out of ten cars doing its best to sideswipe them. 1960I. Cross Backward Sex iii. 66 The cup slid from one end of the tray to the other, sideswiping the teapot on the way. 1973K. Giles File on Death ii. 29 A grey car..came up fast... It side-swiped her and drove on. |