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sideswiping

sideswiping is the present participle and gerund of sideswipe.

Meaning of sideswipe

Verb

sideswipe (third-person singular simple present sideswipes, present participle sideswiping, simple past and past participle sideswiped)

  1. (transitive) To give a blow with the side, as to strike with the side of a car when turning.
    • As he turns left from Central into Jackson he nearly sideswipes a milk truck idling yards out from the kerb.1960, John Updike, Rabbit, Run, page 36

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Questions about sideswiping

What is sideswiping the present participle and gerund of?
Sideswiping is the present participle and gerund of sideswipe.

Words near sideswiping in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sideswiping (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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