I. adverb
1. : on or toward the right and the left : toward the right and then the left
dodged right and left
2. : on both or all sides : in both or all directions
troops looting right and left — A.N.Dragnich
social events … have been rained out right and left — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News
II. noun
: a dance figure in which the men and the women winding in and out in opposite directions clasp right and left hands alternately as they pass one another