sidelong

UK /ˈsaɪd.lɑŋ/ US /ˈsaɪd.lɑŋ/
adj 4adv 2

Definitions

adj

1

Directed to the side; sideways.

He cast me a sidelong glance.

2

Slanting or sloping; oblique.

3

Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.

She made some sidelong remarks about his manhood.

4

Along the side of something.

The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.

adv

1

Towards the side; sideways.

2

obliquely

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