# sideways
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsaɪdweɪz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

sideways
* plural of sideway
** 2002, Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations, page 169:And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah?
** 2006, David Haskell, Roundabout the USA, page 103:In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
** 2013, Pitou van Dijck, The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia, page 81:Expansion of economic activities resulted in the construction of a so—called fishbone pattern of roads and sideways.

### Adjective

sideways (comparative more sideways, superlative most sideways)
* Moving or directed toward one side.
    Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said, […] .
    He gave the ball a sideways kick.
* (informal) Positioned sideways (with a side to the front).
    There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.
* (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward.
    Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.
* (usually with "with", informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with).
    He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.

#### Translations
### Adverb

sideways
* With a side to the front.
    He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.
* Towards one side.
    A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.
    He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
* Askance; sidelong.
* (informal) Neither upward nor downward.
    The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.
* (chiefly US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.
    We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.
** 2011, D. P. Lyle, chapter 78, in Hot Lights, Cold Steel, →ISBN, page 340:As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.
** 2023 May 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, quoting Ivan Matkovic, “So long, San Francisco”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:It feels like the probability of something going sideways here is higher.

#### Derived terms

* fuck me sideways
* go fuck yourself sideways
* knock sideways
* move sideways
* sideways-on
* spelled sideways

#### Translations

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### References

* “sideways”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* waysides