NOUN (1)

1. a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles);


VERB (1)

1. strike from the side;

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sideswipe
    n 1: a glancing blow from or on the side of something
         (especially motor vehicles)
    v 1: strike from the side

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "sideswipe":
   appulse, bang, bang into, brunt, brush, brush by, bulldozing,
   bulling, bump, bump into, cannon, carambole, caress, carom,
   carom into, clash, collide, collision, come in contact,
   come into collision, concuss, concussion, confront each other,
   contact, crack up, crack-up, crash, crash into, crump, crunch,
   dash into, encounter, fall foul of, foul, glance, graze, hammering,
   hit, hit against, hurt, hurtle, impact, impinge, impingement, kiss,
   knock, knock against, mauling, meet, meeting, nudge, onslaught,
   osculate, percuss, percussion, pot, ramming, rub, run into, scrape,
   shave, shock, shy, skim, skirt, slam into, sledgehammering,
   smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing,
   squeak by, strike, strike against, thrusting, touch, whomp