sidecar

From side +‎ car.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪdkɑɹ/

• Audio (US):

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sidecar (plural sidecars)

1. A one-wheeled attachment to the side of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.

   Coordinate term: forecar

2. A cocktail made with cognac (or brandy), triple sec liqueur, and lemon juice.
   • 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     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.

3. (programming) A software component that runs in a separate process from the rest of the software, to provide isolation and encapsulation.
   • Ali Heydarimoghaddam, Microservices Design Patterns (page 83)

     Using generic sidecars for multiple microservices may introduce functionality overhead.

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• → Burmese: ဆိုက်ကား (hcuikka:, “pedicab, cycle rickshaw”)
• → Japanese: サイドカー (saidokā)
• → Korean: 사이드카 (saideuka)
• → Welsh: seicar

• Darcies, Radices, arecids, cardies, carside, darcies, radices

• IPA^(key): /saidˈkaɾ/ [sai̯ð̞ˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: side‧car

sidecar m (plural sidecars or sidecar)

1. sidecar

• “sidecar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

sidecar c

1. sidecar (cocktail)