Definition of "dockside" [dockside]

• The area adjacent to a boating dock. (noun)

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• "Chris Mehlig, a fisherman from Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish, said he is getting eight days of work a month, laying down containment boom, running supplies to other boats or simply being on call dockside in case he is needed."
• "Waiting on the dockside were a bunch of thugs, the attachés, as the successors to the Duvalier regime’s famously feared thugs, the Tontons Macoutes, were known."
• "The other two one-acters here are In The Zone, a wartime drama portraying the claustrophobia and suspicion on a boat carrying explosives through U-boat territory, and The Long Voyage Home, set in a seedy London dockside bar where a newly paid crew present opportunities for the unscrupulous."