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sidecar
1. a small car attached on one side to a motorcycle, usually for one passenger, the other side being supported by a single wheel
2. a cocktail containing brandy with equal parts of Cointreau and lemon juice

1.sidecar - Synonym slap on the side. Especially used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr.
2.sidecar - The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. Designed and produced by Commodore, it broke all of the company's own design rules. If it worked with any other peripherals, it was by magic.


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ANYONE driving up and down Great Charles Queensway in recent days will have been amused to see the Birmingham in Bloom display of Wallace and Gromit riding their motorbike and sidecar is right in front of a billboard poster for Michael Jackson's new film, This is It.
Instead they are purpose-built long and low vehicles - imagine a threewheeled Formula 1 car - and the sidecar itself is an integral part of the chassis.
MARK COSSAR sharpened up for the World Sidecar Speedway Championships when he posted an emphatic victory at Highbridge in Somerset.
 
 
 
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