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off-time, a. U.S. slang.
[f. off 4 b + time n.]
Out of time; badly timed (see also quots.).
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §582 Off-time jive, a sorry excuse. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues xiii. 237 If somebody passed a remark that wasn't in line, he'd start singing and beating on the offtime cat. Ibid. 377 Offtime, out of harmony, old⁓fashioned, corny, offensive. 1973C. Himes Black on Black 188, I can stop in front of a joint where the jukebox's playing and cut a step of off-time boogie. |