Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to collide with the broad side of.
Examples
“When I'd finally put them in a broad-side position, he'd let fly with the Nerf pump gun.”
“And then there will be the insane broad-side from talk radio and irresponsible surrogates making appeals to racism and cultural fear, as well as spreading the “Obama attended a Madrassa” lie.”
“Robbery, fire, murder, and the ruin of the United Kingdom — each discharged in a line by itself, like a separate broad-side of red-hot shot — were among the least of the warnings addressed to an unthinking people.”
“A pedlar brought to Longtown that evening, amongst other wares, a large broad-side sheet, giving an account of the”
“He's attacked me and yesterday or Friday I guess it was, he launched then just a broad-side attack against Senator McCain.”
“When the first snout hit them broad-side, Roy was surprised but not overly concerned.”
“Stewart and I are pumping eight to the bar like a churning turbine in an engine room, while Andy releases broad-side after broadside of shimmering guitar riffs.”
“Other forms in which women engaged, such as the periodical, the broad-side ballad or the prophecy, were often written in 'gender neutral' tones, whereas the scandal fiction was specifically associated with feminine forms of expression and consumption: romance narrative, stories of love and intrigue, the voice of the gossip.”
“THE PRESIDENT: No, but I think -- what we do often is I give the answer I'd like to give and then I go back and give the answer I should give if somebody takes a real broad-side at me.”
“He, more stupid or more unlucky than the rest, struck us a full broad-side as he went by jolting us hard against the hill, and well-nigh jolting himself down the craggy descent into the abyss below.”
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