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off_course

off course

English

Adverb

off course (comparative more off course, superlative most off course)

  1. Not following the planned, or intended, route.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Thinks I to myself, Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer cottage and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning. So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
    The strong winds made the car go careering off course.
  2. Misspelling of of course.

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