side-on

side-on [sahyd-on, -awn] ExamplesWord Origin adjective

1. (of two objects) meeting with the sides foremost.

adverb

2. with the side or sides foremost, especially in a collision: The other car struck me side-on.

Origin of side-on First recorded in 1905–10 Examples from the Web for side-on Historical Examples of side-on

“Kept you from throwing her side-on and giving me that spill you promised,” he chuckled.

Down the Yellowstone

Lewis R. Freeman