highsideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

high-side (third-person singular simple present high-sides, present participle high-siding, simple past and past participle high-sided)

1. (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To show off; to strut.

   Synonyms: flamboast, floss, stunt; see also Thesaurus:show off

   • 1972, Jack Pearl, Victims, page 42:

     What do you expect, high-siding in those rags? Man, you are a walking neon sign advertising your vocation.

   • 1973, Christina Milner, Richard Milner, Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps, page 135:

     One night Velvet came into a bar high-siding about the big “sting” his ho had achieved.

   • 2011, Donald Jigz Titus, Mackin for More Millions (part 2, page 125)

     Jigz didn't want to high-side or anything.