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  • verb Present participle of broadside.

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Examples

  • TODD (voice-over): Joe Biden on message -- broadsiding his opponents on the economy, health care and, for good measure ...

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2008 2008

  • TODD (voice-over): Joe Biden on message -- broadsiding his opponents on the economy, health care and, for good measure ...

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2008 2008

  • Two teenagers did, however, spend a few weeks in the hospital and several months recovering, as they both suffered head trauma from my Chevy Blazer's broadsiding their Mazda RX-7.

    Learning The Hard Way 2008

  • He's the offender who should have been incarcerated but who was allowed to violate the terms of his realease over 100 times by the DOC and almost exactly nine years ago sped through a red light in Tacoma, broadsiding a woman driving to work and killing her.

    Sound Politics: Suspect In Cop's Traffic Death Should Have Been In Jail 2006

  • A little over four years ago, a dark blue Ford SUV careened through a stop sign at 4: 30 a.m. on a December night in Bucharest, Romania, broadsiding an oncoming taxicab and inflicting fatal head injuries on the passenger riding in the cab's back seat.

    A Thorn in Bush’s Side 2008

  • My wife says that she would help me drive, but she has a tendency of rear ending, or broadsiding other vehicles here in CA.

    Driving From L.A. to Baja California 2003

  • She laughed as Trok brought the chariot to a broadsiding halt in front of him.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • Its flight was smooth, and it avoided the rougher wind pockets the way a ship™s captain would run his craft through the trough of the sea to keep the waves from broadsiding his hull.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • Around and around she veered, broadsiding with astonishing accuracy, and knocking the spars about like a foot-ball team kicking a ball.

    Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910

  • When the ships had swung apart, the broadsiding continued, increasingly to the advantage of the Serapis.

    Paul Jones Hutchins Hapgood 1906

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