sidekick
pronunciation
How to pronounce sidekick in British English:
UK [ˈsaɪdkɪk]
How to pronounce sidekick in American English:
US [ˈsaɪdˌkɪk]
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- Noun:
- a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
Word Origin
- sidekick (n.)
- also side-kick, "companion or close associate," 1901, also side-kicker (1903), American English, of unknown origin. Earlier terms were side-pal (1886), side-partner (1886).
Example
- 1. The generator has a sidekick : a water-purification machine , called slingshot .
- 2. Too asian to be anything more than a masked sidekick , hollywood told lee , and gave the kung fu series lead to david carradine .
- 3. And if you 're in cincinnati and have one of savings sidekick 's cincinnati coupon books , be sure to add them as a friend on foursquare .
- 4. Foreign-educated indians , including the prime minister , manmohan singh ( oxford and cambridge ) and his sidekick montek ahluwalia ( oxford ) , played a big role in bringing economic reform to india in the early 1990s .
- 5. Savings sidekick has dedicated a few pages of their book to asking users to friend them on foursquare to receive the reminders , and they 've included a brief description of what foursquare is all about .