| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
I have been wondering about the origins of the word "sidekick", and
I have not found dictionaries to be helpful. Is a sidekick someone
who gets abused whenever you do, or someone who spurs his horse
forward whenever you do, or what?
-- Ann
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| 138.1 | VIRTUE::RAVAN | Tue Jan 14 1986 16:25 | 7 | ||
Hmmm - very interesting, kemo sabe. I always thought it had to do with "the fellow who kicks you in the ribs to wake you up when it's your turn to keep watch." Maybe we should write to Roy Rogers and ask him? -b | |||||
| 138.2 | SIVA::PARODI | Tue Jan 14 1986 17:03 | 4 | ||
Not sure what this has to do with the question but the First Sergeant in a U.S. Army or Air Force unit is known as the "topkick." JP | |||||