- 1配槍；腰間武器（舊時也可以是佩劍）
A sidearm is a weapon you wear at your side, ready but not in your hands — a pistol in a case on the hip, or, in older times, a sword. Police and soldiers use the word for the gun they carry every day, as opposed to a long gun they pick up for a job. It is a fairly formal, slightly military word; in ordinary talk people just say gun or pistol. Though actually, you will also meet sidearm in baseball: there it means throwing with the arm coming round from the side, not over the top of the head. That is the same spelling, another job.
組成From side + arm. Here arm means a weapon you carry, not the body part — though the two ideas sit close.
同家族的字
- armin this older use, a weapon, as in armed
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sidearmnoun/ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/
- 1
A personal weapon, either a firearm (handgun type) or a cold weapon (such as a sword), carried on the hip in a belt, sheath, holster, etc., for rapid access.
sidearmverb/ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/
- 1
To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
- His interest, aside from slinging sinkers as a sidearming right-hander, was medicine.
sidearmadv/ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/
- 1
With one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。