- in some sports, for example football (soccer) and ice hockey, a player who is onside is in a position where playing the ball or puck is allowedTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryOnside is used with these nouns:
- kick
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Idioms
See onside in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryget/keep somebody onside
- (British English) to get/keep somebody’s support
- The party needs to keep the major national newspapers onside if it's going to win the next election.
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