sideswipe

• Despite police protest, bystanders continue to ram, sideswipe, rear-end, scratch, and dent the escaping vehicle.
• Either the noise of her arrival had been masked by the roaring of the engines, or Patience had assumed the thump was due to the flapping of unstowed fenders or a sideswipe by the Belle Isle . —  Barr, Nevada - [Anna Pigeon 02] A Superior Death v1.0 HTML
• Griffin and all who went before her, and all her peers - have surely honed the craft, have done enough brave scut work on the road where some other comedians and 'helpers' routinely try to sideswipe, cutpurse, and ride roughshod over others … —  The Moderate Voice
• So the sideswipe is doubly misplaced: it shouldn't (one would have thought) be here at all, as a matter of professional responsibility if not courtesy; and it appears rather to miss, or to mistake, its mark. —  Posthegemony
• Athough disconcerting, what might sound surprizing, perhaps even dumbfounding, is that on the very stretch of track on which Mark Poler and the four other locomotive crewmembers who lost their lives in that ‘93 crash, on November 15, 2003, barely ten years later, a sideswipe or broadside collision between UP and Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains resulted in serious bodily injury to both members of the two-person UP train crew. —  California Progress Report

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