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  • noun The southern side of a building, street, area etc.

Etymologies

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south + side

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Examples

  • Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures.

    Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy: Book summary 2010

  • Brian has done the hard work of becoming a credible statewide candidate and we already know Creigh will do well in southside, but Terry will drive rural Virginia back to the right.

    MAJOR AG DEVELOPMENT 2008

  • May 26th, 2008 7: 54 pm ET there are other ways to serve your country than the uniform helping the poor in southside Chicago comes to mind ...

    Obama admits: I 'cannot know' what war is like 2008

  • Once a thriving area of Virginia, the Danville/Martinsville area in southside Virginia has hit hard times recently.

    Not Larry Sabato: 2006

  • Now, in southside politics (basically south and west of Amherst), probably never ‘reformed’ as much, except perhaps in Roanoke (being an urban center) as they did here.

    Waldo Jaquith - Whispers about Sen. George Allen. 2006

  • But, I do believe the economic situation in southside – the textiles collapse in Martinsville and Danville – will not result in a purely anti-Mexican backlash.

    Waldo Jaquith - Al Weed’s Ewert mailer. 2006

  • Once a thriving area of Virginia, the Danville/Martinsville area in southside Virginia has hit hard times recently.

    Danville/Martinville Area 2006

  • The Northside are the "city" folk and the southside is mostly rural farming communities.

    A look back at the 64th 2005

  • That's because the southside is the most desireable location and very close to the beach.

    DavidLithman.com 2009

  • Webb also predicted that the "southside" of Virginia, where the manufacturing sector has taken a hard hit, could decide who wins the state, vowed to campaign aggressively for Obama among Appalachian voters, and predicted that several Republican areas in the region were on the verge of tilting Democratic.

    Webb: "Demographics Of Virginia Are Microcosm Of The Country" 2009

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