side-swipe

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English

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Noun

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side-swipe (plural side-swipes)

  1. Alternative form of sideswipe

Verb

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side-swipe (third-person singular simple present side-swipes, present participle side-swiping, simple past and past participle side-swiped)

  1. Alternative form of sideswipe
    • 2007, John Richard Collier, Inside Out[1]:
      A semi had side-swiped my patrol car, breaking windows and destroying the driver's door.
    • 2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 52:
      The author was involved in a rail accident not included in this analysis, when his train was side-swiped by a freight passing in the opposite direction, which contained derailed wagons.