Sidearm

Origin

side + arm

Full definition of sidearm

Noun

1. A personal weapon normally carried in a holster on the body of a wielder for immediate use.

Verb

1. To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
• 2009, March 19, Ben Shpigel, Medicine’s Loss Could Be the Mets’ Gain, His interest, aside from slinging sinkers as a sidearming right-hander, was medicine.

Derived terms

• sidearmer

Adverb

1. With one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.

Anagrams

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