sidepiece
See also: side piece
English
Etymology
Noun
sidepiece (plural sidepieces)
- A part forming a side of something.
- The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
- Alternative spelling of side piece
- 2025 July 21, Kat Rosenfield, βThe Coldplay Couple Did Something Bad. The Internet Did Something Worse.β, in The Free Pressβ[1]:
- If there's a truly compelling reason not to normalize shaming as a global, always-on public spectator sport, it's not that it degrades the humanity of the shamed; it's not even the trite "who among us has not canoodled at a Coldplay concert with his sidepiece" justification. It's simply this: When we take joy in the distress and ruination of other people, we make monsters of ourselves.