Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

sidearm1

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪdɑːm/

Definition of sidearm

noun

  • a weapon worn at a person’s side, such as a pistol or formerly a sword.

adjective

  • (of a throw, pitch, or cast) performed or delivered with a sweeping motion of the arm from the side of the body at or below shoulder level:a sidearm delivery [as adverb]:I could throw sidearm

verb

[with object] chiefly Baseball
  • throw or pitch a ball to (someone) with a sidearm motion: pitchers who sidearmed me on one pitch, then curved me with the next
  • throw or pitch (a ball or other object) with a sidearm motion: he sidearmed a small stone, which missed the bottle

Derivatives

sidearmer

noun

sidearm in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of sidearm in the US English dictionary
  |  Cite

Word of the day

kempt

/ kem(p)t /
adjective
maintained in a neat and clean condition …