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side-gaze

side-gaze is the alternative form of sidegaze.

Meaning of sidegaze

Noun

sidegaze (plural sidegazes)

  1. The act of looking sideways, to the left or right, by moving only one's eyes.
    • "His light wentout very promptly, didn't it?" She flashed me a sidegaze. Were we acting convincingly?1930, Ray Cummings, “Section 4, Ch. 28, "The Ascent of Archimedes"”, in "Brigands of the Moon: Part Three of a Four-part Novel" in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May and June 1930

Questions about side-gaze

What is side-gaze the alternative form of?
Side-gaze is the alternative form of sidegaze.

Words near side-gaze in the dictionary

  1. side-eyed
  2. side-eyeing
  3. side-eyes
  4. side-eying
  5. side-foot
  6. side-gaze
  7. side-glance
  8. side-glances
  9. side-hand
  10. side-handed
  11. side-handedly

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