SIDEKICK meaning: Assistant or companion to protagonist

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word sidekick:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

sidekick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sidekick: Merriam-Webster
sidekick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sidekick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sidekick: Collins English Dictionary
sidekick: Vocabulary.com
Sidekick, sidekick: Wordnik
sidekick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
sidekick: Wiktionary
sidekick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sidekick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
sidekick: Infoplease Dictionary
sidekick: Dictionary.com
sidekick: Online Etymology Dictionary
sidekick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Sidekick (TV series), Sidekick (disambiguation), Sidekick (film), Sidekick (phone), Sidekick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
sidekick: Rhymezone
sidekick: FreeDictionary.org
sidekick: Mnemonic Dictionary
Sidekick: The Word Detective
sidekick: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Sidekick: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

sidekick, sidekick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
SideKick(T-Mobile): Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: (informal) An assistant to another person, especially to a superior or more important person.
▸ noun: (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre, etc., a good foil of the protagonist, a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.

Similar:

crony, pal, buddy, brother, chum, sidekicker, offsider, kiss-ass, kissass, sideperson, more...

Opposite:

comic relief, comic foil

Types:

Robin, Batgirl, Alfred, Kato, more...

Phrases:

Borland Sidekick, Duble Sidekick, sidekick of steve allen, sycophantic sidekick, western sidekick, more...

Adjectives:

comic, old, faithful, little, new, young, loyal, female, indian, black, former

Colors:

blue, red, yellow, green, orange, more...