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sideswipes

sideswipes is the plural of sideswipe.

sideswipes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sideswipe.

Meaning of sideswipe

Noun

sideswipe (plural sideswipes)

  1. A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously.
  2. (figuratively) A catty or sarcastic remark.
    • give a sideswipe
    Synonyms:
    gibe

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Questions about sideswipes

What is sideswipes the plural of?
Sideswipes is the plural of sideswipe.

Words near sideswipes in the dictionary

  1. sideswept
  2. sideswipe
  3. sideswiped
  4. sideswiper
  5. sideswipers
  6. sideswipes
  7. sideswiping
  8. sidetable
  9. sidetables
  10. Sidetan
  11. Sidetans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sideswipes (page history and authors); sideswipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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