sidekick
Use Sidekick in a sentence
noun
1.
a close friend.
2.
a confederate or assistant.
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| —n | |
| informal a close friend or follower who accompanies another on adventures, etc | |
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Sidekick
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
sidekick
"companion or close associate," 1906, shortened from side-kicker (1903, in an O.Henry story), Amer.Eng., of unknown origin. Earlier terms were side-pal (1886), side-partner (1890).
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Example sentences
It features a weapons-wise, no-nonsense heroine who combats a malevolent wizard and his bumbling sidekick.
At some point during this exchange, the booth operator's sidekick sneaks up and steals your wallet.
Some actors seem destined to play the quirky sidekick.
Ant is his sidekick that feels he needs to stick up for everyone and feel the rage of his power.
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