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off course

off course prepositional phrase: not following the planned, or intended, route. Also the misspelling of of course.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Not following the planned, or intended, route.
    • The strong winds made the car go careering off course.
    • 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...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

Also used as

off course is also the misspelling of of course.

Words formed from off course

Questions about off course

What does off course mean?
Off course means not following the planned, or intended, route.
What part of speech is off course?
Off course is a prepositional phrase.

Words near off course in the dictionary

  1. off by heart
  2. off camera
  3. off chance
  4. off chances
  5. off coarse
  6. off course
  7. off cutter
  8. off cutters
  9. off day
  10. off days
  11. off drive

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