1 to, towards or from the side:
He looked sideways at her. * The truck skidded sideways across the road. * He has been moved sideways (= moved to another job at the same level as before, not higher or lower).
2 with one side facing forwards:
She sat sideways on the chair. * The sofa will only go through the door sideways.
sideways adjective:
She slid him a sideways glance. * a sideways move
IDIOMS see KNOCKv.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sideways is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sideways a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sideways is tagged as adverb.
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