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[sahyd-kik] / ˈsaɪdˌkɪk /


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During the regular season, the Lakers used him in a sidekick role.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

He also helped introduce the Batman villain Killer Croc, as well as Jason Todd, the young man who would succeed Dick Grayson as Batman’s sidekick Robin.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

What was it like finding the nuance in a character that, in many other series, would likely be a goofy sidekick or punchline?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

And in Belgium, a rescue cat named Maximus has shot to social media stardom as the bewhiskered sidekick and PR weapon of Prime Minister Bart De Wever.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

Rudy Noyes, who was still young at thirty-six, had been with the office, had, in fact, been Bookman’s personal sidekick, apprentice, and mouthpiece for eleven of those seventeen years.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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