Synonyms for sidekick
ˈsaɪdˌkɪkside·kick

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1. sidekicknoun

   Synonyms:
   wingman, acolyte

2. sidekicknoun

   An assistant to another person, usually the person's inferior.

   Synonyms:
   wingman, acolyte

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1. buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekicknoun

   a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

   Synonyms:
   chum, buddy, chum salmon, brother, crony, blood brother, comrade, pal

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1. • Friend

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1. deuteragonist

   it is the sidekick of the protagonist(main character) in a novel.

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "sidekick":

   henchman, crony, assistant, partner

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1. President Biden:

   You can't call yourself a maverick when all you've ever been is a sidekick, what a majority of American people are looking for — a steady hand, leadership, an optimist; not an angry man, lurching from one position to another.

2. Michael Strahan:

   In sports, you can put as many great players as you want on a team, but if one guy out there is worried about himself, it will not work, then on television, I've had jobs where I got there and felt like : Wow, I didn't know I was supposed to be a sidekick. I thought I was coming here to be a partner.

3. Arigon Starr:

   To paraphrase from Michael's work -- Native people have been relegated to the sidekick, shaman, overly sexualized or super tracker characters, we are rarely the main character or the hero.

4. Gillian Anderson:

   I can only imagine that at the beginning, they wanted me to be the sidekick, or that, somehow, maybe it was enough of a change just to see a woman having this kind of intellectual repartee with a man on camera, and surely the audience couldn't deal with actually seeing them walk side by side!