BLIND SIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blind side mean? 

• BLIND SIDE (noun)
  The noun BLIND SIDE has 1 sense:

1. the side on which your vision is limited or obstructed

  Familiarity information: BLIND SIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLIND SIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The side on which your vision is limited or obstructed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("blind side" is a kind of...):

side (a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location)

 Context examples 

Ah, Sir Oliver! you were on the blind side of me and I saw you not.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Joe was sourer than ever, and Sol-leks was unapproachable, blind side or other side.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He caught the one-eyed elder on his blind side and ripped his ear into ribbons.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A wise woman hath made prophecy that this blind side will one day be the death of me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Forever after Buck avoided his blind side, and to the last of their comradeship had no more trouble.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He did not like to be approached on his blind side.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)