off
IPA: ˈɔf
noun
- (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.
verb
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (transitive, Singapore, Philippines, Nigeria) To switch off.
adjective
- Inoperative, disabled.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- Started on the way.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (Britain, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
adverb
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- (theater) Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
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