Usually means: Direction perpendicular to forward, backward.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word sideways:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sideways: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sideways: Merriam-Webster
  3. sideways, sideways: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sideways: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sideways: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sideways: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sideways, sideways: Wordnik
  8. sideways: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sideways: Wiktionary
  10. sideways: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sideways: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sideways: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sideways: Dictionary.com
  14. sideways: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sideways: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sideways (Clarence Greenwood song), Sideways (Dierks Bentley song), Sideways (Men Without Hats album), Sideways (Men Without Hats song), Sideways (Transformers), Sideways (Wrabel EP), Sideways (comics), Sideways (disambiguation), Sideways (novel), Sideways: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sideways: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sideways: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sideways: Rhymezone
  20. sideways: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sideways: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sideways: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sideways: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sideways: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Sideways: Futures and Options Market Terminology

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sideways: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sideways, sideways, sideways: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sideways: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sideway as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Moving or directed toward one side.
adjective:  (informal) Positioned sideways (with a side to the front).
adjective:  (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward.
adjective:  (usually with "with", informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with).
adverb:  With a side to the front.
adverb:  Towards one side.
adverb:  Askance; sidelong.
adverb:  (informal) Neither upward nor downward.
adverb:  (chiefly US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.

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