What is Sidebar?
1.
A public request for a private conversation or meeting usually employed when in the company of others. The announcement of "sidebar" is intended to prevent others from interrupting the conversation. Comes from the O.J. trial.
Scott pulled Julie out of the party and into a sidebar to, drunkenly, confess his undying love to her.
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2.
To ignore an incoming cell phone call by pushing one of the side buttons to silence the ring or stop the vibration.
"That dork Phill was calling again to try to get me to join that online pyramid scheme so I sidebarred him."
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