sidearm

From side +‎ arm.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/

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sidearm (plural sidearms)

1. A personal weapon, either a firearm (handgun type) or a cold weapon (such as a sword), carried on the hip in a belt, sheath, holster, etc., for rapid access.

   Alternative form: side arm

sidearm (third-person singular simple present sidearms, present participle sidearming, simple past and past participle sidearmed)

1. To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
   • 2009 March 19, Ben Shpigel, “Medicine’s Loss Could Be the Mets’ Gain”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     His interest, aside from slinging sinkers as a sidearming right-hander, was medicine.

• sidearmer

sidearm (comparative more sidearm, superlative most sidearm)

1. With one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.

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Unadapted borrowing from English sidearm.

sidearm m (plural sidearms)

1. (ultimate frisbee) sidearm