sidle
sahy duhl
- v move unobtrusively or furtively
The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log - v move sideways
- Ships the length of three football fields sidle up to gargantuan dockside cranes; tens of thousands of containers are stacked up behind in multicolored canyons of steel.
- By the time Chai was a teenager, Vietnam veterans would sidle up to her on the sidewalk to talk about hookers they had known in Southeast Asia.
- As an added startler, two or three members of the cast sidle up to a girl in the audience and begin speaking words of love in her ear.