broadside

  • (s) toward a full side
    • a broadside attack
  • (r) with a side facing an object
    • the train hit the truck broadside
    • the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it

Nouns

  • (n) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
    • he mailed the circular to all subscribers
    broadsheet, circular, flyer, handbill, throwaway, flier, bill,
  • (n) a speech of violent denunciation philippic, tirade,
  • (n) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
  • (n) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
    • the ship was broadside to the dock
  • (n) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship

Verbs

  • (v) collide with the broad side of
    • her car broad-sided mine

Synonyms

broadsheet circular flyer handbill throwaway flier bill philippic tirade

Words of close approximity