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sidecar en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈsaɪdkɑɹ/
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From side + car.

Meanings

  1. A one-wheeled attachment to the side of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.
  2. A cocktail made with cognac (or brandy), triple sec liqueur, and lemon juice.
    • Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies. 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:
  3. A software component that runs in a separate process from the rest of the software, to provide isolation and encapsulation.
    • Using generic sidecars for multiple microservices may introduce functionality overhead. Ali Heydarimoghaddam, Microservices Design Patterns (page 83)

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sidecars Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

forecar

Deriveds

sidecarcross · sidecarist · sidecar file

Descendants

seicar · サイドカー · ဆိုက်ကား (pedicab, cycle rickshaw) · 사이드카

Translations (38)

eo flankĉaro (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · fr side-car (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · cy seicar (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · nl zijspan (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · ru лю́лька (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · it sidecar (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · fi akantappaja (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · cmn 邊車 /边车 (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · uk лю́лька (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · vo flanavabil (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · ja サイドカー (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · it carrozzella (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · es sidecar (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · cs sajdkár (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · ru коля́ска (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · ja サイドカー (cocktail) · cy ystlysgar (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · de Seitenwagen (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · hu oldalkocsi (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · it carrozzino (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · cs sajdkára (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · fr nacelle latérale (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · ca sidecar (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · nl zijspanwagen (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · tr yolcu sepeti (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · fi sivuvaunu (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · pt side-car (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · ko 사이드카 (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · ga carr cliathánach (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · sv sidovagn (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · fi sidecar (cocktail) · ko 사이드카 (cocktail) · fi akantappokone (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · it carrozzetta (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · de Beiwagen (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · fi lulla (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · uk коля́ска (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle) · sv sidvagn (one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle)