broadside
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- n an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- n a speech of violent denunciation
- 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
- v collide with the broad side of
- 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
- The movie is not opera so much as impassioned journalism a broadside fired at the good ship Free Enterprise, with the hope of altering its course, and dislodging the pirates .
- The movie is a broadside against the MPAA on behalf of indie filmmakers, and is sponsored by the Independent Film Channel.
- Herbert Hoover arrived in Kansas City one day last week loaded, primed and cocked to fire his best-prepared forensic broadside of the season into Franklin Roosevelt.