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Sideline   /sˈaɪdlˌaɪn/   Listen
noun
Side line, Sideline  n.  
1.
(a)
A line pertaining or attached to the side of a thing.
(b)
Specif., a line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.
2.
A line of goods sold in addition to one's principal articles of trade; a course of business pursued aside from one's regular occupation.
3.
A secondary road; esp., a byroad at right angles to a main road. (Canada)
4.
(Sports) Either of two marked lines which delimit the side boundaries of a playing field, as in football or soccer.
5.
(Sports) (plural) The areas in a sports arena just beyond the sidelines (4), where coaches and alternative players sit or stand.
on the sidelines not actively involved in an activity, such as a sporting event, but available for use when needed; in reserve; as, the coach kept him on the sidelines for a week.


verb
Sideline  v. t.  To render unable to participate in an activity, such as a sporting event; as, the pitcher was sidelined by a groin injury.





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"Sideline" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pulps. Karen has a little general-antique business in Rosemont. They intend using their share of the collection, plus such culls and duplicates as the rest of us can consign to them, to go into the arms business, with a general-antique sideline, which Karen can manage while Pierre's writing.... Tell you what; I'll call a meeting at my place tomorrow evening, say at eight ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... to his boots), but he had indoor hands, a back as straight as an Injun's, an' a way of flingin' up his head an' drawin' down his brows when you spoke to him sudden, which proved 'at trampin' was only a sideline with him. He put in an application as cook for ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason
... enlisted in the Army to fight Germans, not to work. All I've had to do is march twenty or thirty miles a day with a sixty pound pack on my back, but outside of that I must admit that I didn't do much work, except dig trenches, do sentry duty, and kill a few Huns as a sideline. It certainly is one grand picnic for ...
— Army Boys on German Soil • Homer Randall


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