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sidestep
sidestep
English
Noun
sidestep (plural sidesteps)
Verb
sidestep (third-person singular simple present sidesteps, present participle sidestepping, simple past and past participle sidestepped)
- (intransitive) To step to the side.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 180:
- I […] knocked and waited. […] He sidestepped, and I went in.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 180:
- (transitive) To avoid or dodge.
- They sidestepped the issue.