What does on-side mean?

on-side

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.48 in modern English

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"We turn on-side shortly, do we not? And the road descends?"
"They'd be screaming for offside and she'd say calmly, 'He couldn't have been. The number six put him on-side.'"
"'The Chairy', Wallace Mercer, desperate to keep the fans on-side, signed Dundee United's Iain Ferguson."
"'Tell me,' she went on tiredly trying another tack. 'Did you hit her with the on-side or off-side wing?'"

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