From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsideswipeside‧swipe1 /ˈsaɪdswaɪp/ noun [countable usually singular] CRITICIZEif you take a sideswipe at someone or something, you criticize them while you are talking about something different Sir Kenneth concluded with a sideswipe at his critics.
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sideswipe• What Hunt took as high seriousness, I took as a typical Lauda sideswipe, the fox laughing at the huntsman.sideswipesideswipe2 verb [transitive] American English TTCACCIDENTto hit the side of a car with another car so that the two sides touch quickly She was going too fast and sideswiped a parked car.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
sideswipe• The bus sideswiped several parked cars. 