Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In volleyball and similar games, a situation in which a team gains the right to serve by winning a volley.
- adjective Being a system of scoring in which points can only be scored by the team that is serving and the receiving team can gain the right to serve by winning a volley.
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Examples
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Here's one at LSUS's Journal of Ideology from 3-4 years ago now: in sideout side (pdf).
I suspect ... Frank Wilson 2006
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Well, none of your poems strikes me as lacking affect at all. in sideout side creates a very intriguing world of its own (it instantly transported me back to the world of Yasmina Khadra's novel The Swallows of Kabul) and all the poems have music -- quirky quest quiet, in fact, is verbal music.
I suspect ... Frank Wilson 2006
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He got himself out of trouble many times, and I made a few unforced errors on sideout.
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The master with four hands left next morning, and went on some islands nearer the main land; they returned at night and said they had had ‘a sideout with the natives.’
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The words chaffed more than any right-sideout T-shirt.
Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003
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"Serving is, of course, hugely important, because you can't win points in sideout volleyball without good offense, but we've put a lot of work into our defense and it's finally starting to show."
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Old school beach volleyball is making a comeback by resurrecting sideout scoring, larger courts, and antenna-less nets.
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"If you start, especially when it's more of a sideout game, and you're two or three points down at the beginning of the game, it's going to be really hard to get back into the game because it's only 15 points," setter Edgardo Goas said.
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For the match, Alabama hit .231 and improved its sideout percentage to 69 in the fifth set.
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Three more Jays errors gave the Kewpies a four-point cushion, and they could play sideout ball from there.
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