Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An indirect censure.
- noun In railroading, a term used to describe a collision between trains in which one train meets another at a slight angle, as in crossing a switch, and slides or scrapes past it, doing damage to the sides of the cars, but not necessarily producing a disastrous wreck.
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Examples
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Gardner picked up a piece of iron and gave him a side-wipe above the ear that brought him to terms.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Gardner picked up a piece of iron and gave him a side-wipe above the ear that brought him to terms.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Mr. Welles had the impression that a "side-wipe" had been exchanged in which he had not shared.
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Gardner picked up a piece of iron and gave him a side-wipe above the ear that brought him to terms.
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839
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"Some day," she said, "a big comet will hit this law-ridden, man-regulated earth -- or the earth will slip a cog and go wabbling out of its orbit into interstellar space and side-wipe another planet -- or it will ultimately freeze up like the moon.
The Common Law 1899
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