sidecar

See also: side-car

English

a motorcycle with sidecar

Etymology

From side +‎ car.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪdkɑɹ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

sidecar (plural sidecars)

1. A one-wheeled attachment to the side of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.

   Coordinate term: forecar

2. A cocktail made with cognac (or brandy), triple sec liqueur, and lemon juice.
   • 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies.

3. (programming) A software component that runs in a separate process from the rest of the software, to provide isolation and encapsulation.
   • Ali Heydarimoghaddam, Microservices Design Patterns (page 83)

     Using generic sidecars for multiple microservices may introduce functionality overhead.

Derived terms

• sidecarcross
• sidecar file
• sidecarist

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဆိုက်ကား (hcuikka:, “pedicab, cycle rickshaw”)
• → Japanese: サイドカー (saidokā)
• → Korean: 사이드카 (saideuka)
• → Welsh: seicar

Translations

one-wheeled attachment to a motorcycle

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: sidecar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊車 / 边车 (zh) (biānchē)

• Czech: sajdkár (cs) m, sajdkára (cs) f
• Dutch: zijspan (nl) m or n, zijspanwagen (nl) m
• Esperanto: flankĉaro
• Finnish: sivuvaunu (fi), lulla (fi), akantappaja (fi), akantappokone (fi)
• French: side-car (fr) m, nacelle latérale (Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England)
• German: Beiwagen (de) m, Seitenwagen (de) m
• Hungarian: oldalkocsi (hu)
• Irish: carr cliathánach m
• Italian: sidecar (it) m, carrozzetta f, carrozzella (it) f, carrozzino m
• Japanese: サイドカー (ja) (saidokā)
• Korean: 사이드카 (saideuka)
• Portuguese: side-car m
• Russian: коля́ска (ru) f (koljáska), лю́лька (ru) f (ljúlʹka)
• Spanish: sidecar m
• Swedish: sidovagn (sv) c, sidvagn c
• Turkish: yolcu sepeti
• Ukrainian: коля́ска f (koljáska), лю́лька f (ljúlʹka)
• Volapük: flanavabil
• Welsh: ystlysgar m, seicar m (familiar)

cocktail

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sidecar (fi)
• Japanese: サイドカー (ja) (saidokā)
• Korean: 사이드카 (saideuka)

Anagrams

• Darcies, Radices, arecids, cardies, carside, darcies, radices

Italian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

sidecar m (invariable)

1. sidecar
2. combination

   Synonyms: motocarrozzetta, motocarrozzino, motocarrozzella

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saidˈkaɾ/ [sai̯ð̞ˈkaɾ]
  • Syllabification: side‧car
• IPA^(key): (spelling pronunciation) /sideˈkaɾ/ [si.ð̞eˈkaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: si‧de‧car

Noun

sidecar m (plural sidecars or sidecar)

1. sidecar

Further reading

• “sidecar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Noun

sidecar c

1. sidecar (cocktail)