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onsides

onsides adjective: onside: in a legal position with respect to the ball and boundaries. Also the plural of onside.

Adjective

onsides (not comparable)

  1. Onside: in a legal position with respect to the ball and boundaries
    • He was well onsides when the whistle blew.

Also used as

onsides is also the plural of onside.

Origin of onsides

From on + sides.

Words formed from onsides

  • onsides kick

Questions about onsides

What does onsides mean?
Onsides means onside: in a legal position with respect to the ball and boundaries.
What part of speech is onsides?
Onsides is an adjective.

Words near onsides in the dictionary

  1. onshores
  2. onshoring
  3. onside
  4. onside kick
  5. onside kicks
  6. onsides
  7. onsie
  8. onsies
  9. onsight
  10. onsighted
  11. onsighting

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