high side meaning: definition, quotations

high side

nounalso spelled high-side

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Motor racing, Racing, Sports a type of motorcycle crash where the motorcycle tire loses, then rapidly regains traction, thus throwing the rider violently up, over, and off the motorcycle as the motorcycle spins off on its own trajectory.

Related terms: high-side, highsider, low side, racebike

high-side

verb

Slang To show off; to strut.

African-American Vernacular

What do you expect, high-siding in those rags? Man, you are a walking neon sign advertising your vocation.1972, Jack Pearl, Victims, page 42:
One night Velvet came into a bar high-siding about the big “sting” his ho had achieved.1973, Christina Milner, Richard Milner, Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps, page 135:

1 more example

Jigz didn't want to high-side or anything.2011, Donald Jigz Titus, Mackin for More Millions (part 2, page 125)