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side
noun- a recorded tune or song US, 1930
Early gramophone records held one recording on each side. - We began to record like mad: during the first months of 1945 alone, we made over fifty sides. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 331, 1946
- Robert threw a Dinah Washington side on real quick. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 103, 1957
- I have within my comfy shed bottles of rare red wine and lots of sides and tapes of sounds. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 33, 1959
- Then we’ll Spin Red’s new sides. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 18, 1961
- Then we went up to my place and started playing some sides and smoking pot. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 183, 1965
- “You can’t imagine,” Jessica said, “how many young editors and labor union people, and even a few cabinet ministers here and there, sat on the floor in our living room asking for another side by Miles or Dizzy or Duke.” — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 29, 1965
- I bought all the latest sides. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 110, 1978
- [Y]ou could buy R&B singles unobtainable elsewhere–all those Lightnin’ Slim and Slim Harpo sides on the Excello label. — Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 35, 1989
- I’d invite these dullards up to my room, offer them pot (they’d decline), and put on some sides. — Richard Meltzer, A Whore Just Like the Rest, p. 536, 1998
- a girl US
- — American Speech, p. 154, Spring-Summer 1972: ‘An approach to Black slang’
- a group of friends TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1973
- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ on the ... side
somewhat; to a noticeable degree UK, 1713- [S]ometimes the cuisine can be a little on the heavy side. — The Guardian, 27 April 2002
▶ on the side- describes an extra-marital sexual liaison US, 1893
- I can be another woman in your life / I can be the other reason you’re out at night / I can be all the things you thought she might / I can be on the side / That would alright, alright, alright[.] — Aaliyah I Can Be, 2001
- of work or commerce, extra to regular or legitimate practice, often discreetly so UK, 1961
- A bit on the side? and how to make it[.] Want to earn extra cash? Ignore those get-rich-quick ads[.] — The Observer, 2 May 1999
- used as an announcement that you are monitoring a citizens’ band radio channel; describes someone monitoring a citizens’ band radio channel US, 1976
- Come back the breaker on the side[.] — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 18, 1981
▶ over the side
engaged in private business or sexual liaisons during duty hours UK
Originally navy, “over the side (of a ship)”, meaning “absent without leave”; adopted into police use.- — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 325, 1970
- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
▶ put on side
to assume airs and graces UK, 1878
Possibly derived from the game of billiards.- Would you believe that I wore herring tins for shoes once? And my wife Clara–who always liked to put on side–wore condensed milk tins for high heels? — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 49, 1965
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