sideload or side-load [sahyd-lohd]Computers. Word Origin verb (used without object)
- to transfer software, data, etc., from one local system or device to another, typically from one’s computer to a mobile device.
verb (used with object)
- to transfer (software, data, etc.) by this process: It’ll take two more minutes to sideload my podcasts to my phone.
Origin of sideload 1995–2000; in the sense ‘off to the side’, i.e., not over the Internet; patterned after upload and download