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Sideline

noun

A line that marks the side boundary of a playing field. Synonym: out of bounds.

An auxiliary line of merchandise.

An auxiliary activity. Synonyms: avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit, spare-time activity.

verb

Remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position.

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"Sideline" Quotes from Famous Books

... the pulps. Karen has a little general-antique business in Rosemont. They intend using their share of the collection, plus such culls and duplicates as the rest of us can consign to them, to go into the arms business, with a general-antique sideline, which Karen can manage while Pierre's writing.... Tell you what; I'll call a meeting at my place tomorrow evening, say at eight ...

— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... to his boots), but he had indoor hands, a back as straight as an Injun's, an' a way of flingin' up his head an' drawin' down his brows when you spoke to him sudden, which proved 'at trampin' was only a sideline with him. He put in an application as cook for ...

— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason

... enlisted in the Army to fight Germans, not to work. All I've had to do is march twenty or thirty miles a day with a sixty pound pack on my back, but outside of that I must admit that I didn't do much work, except dig trenches, do sentry duty, and kill a few Huns as a sideline. It certainly is one grand picnic for ...

— Army Boys on German Soil • Homer Randall