Definitions for sideline

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sideline side·line

Spelling: [sahyd-lahyn]

IPA: /ˈsaɪdˌlaɪn/

Sideline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in sideline (deeiilns).

Definitions for sideline

noun

1. a line at the side of something.
2. a business or activity pursued in addition to one's primary business; a second occupation.
3. an additional or auxiliary line of goods:
4. Sports. either of the two lines defining the side boundaries of a field or court. sidelines, the area immediately beyond either sideline, where the substitute players sit.
5. sidelines, the position or point of view taken by a person who observes an activity or situation but does not directly participate in it.

verb (used with object)

1. to render incapable of participation, especially in anything involving vigorous, physical action, as a sport:

Origin of sideline

An Americanism dating back to 1685-95; side¹ + line¹

Examples for sideline

The midnight hours he spent in the pineal gland were only a sideline of his work.

It seemed that the sideline of mountain-tops had a little light on them.

A few minutes later, Ferguson, having been revived, sat on the sideline, helmet off, hair tousled, dazed.

Back in 2005, Franklin had referred to sideline reporter Holly Rowe as “sweetheart.”

An elementary school teacher who taught music as a sideline, Gladys Thompson, organized an orchestra about 1928.

The business flourished and some one advised my friend that he should put in popcorn as a sideline.

The Democrats were able to sideline Kucinich and avoid a divisive impeachment battle.

Even after she left its barbed bosom, it did its best to further excommunicate and sideline her.

Which sideline reporter will appear on television first after kickoff: Erin Andrews or Pam Oliver?

Even then he had enough surplus energy to run a sideline in literature.