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Off side

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(Football) out of play; - said when a player has got in front of the ball in a scrimmage, or when the ball has been last touched by one of his own side behind him.
The right hand side in driving; the farther side.
(Cricket) See Off, n.

See also: Off Off Off



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"White star in the forehead, one white foot on the off side, this little knot just in that place;" then looking at the middle of my back -- "and, as I am alive, there is that little patch of white hair that John used to call `Beauty's three-penny bit'.
By the time I had got to the corner, the trespassers, whoever they were, had run into the shrubbery at the off side of the walk, and were hidden from sight among the thick trees and bushes in that part of the grounds.
She gave him her hand, and they set off side by side, going faster and faster, and the more rapidly they moved the more tightly she grasped his hand.
 
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