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off one's face

off one's face prepositional phrase: extremely intoxicated, either by alcohol or drugs.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (slang) Extremely intoxicated, either by alcohol or drugs.
    • I try as much as possible not to judge other parents, but when, after midnight, you see a baby in ear defenders being hauled in a cart through a crowd of adults, all of whom are off their faces, while the infant cowers under a blanket, it doesn’t really seem in their best interests.2023 June 30, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, “I’ll never be a true hippie parent, but I can learn a lot from summer festival-goers”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    off one's head

Synonyms of off one's face

Questions about off one's face

What does off one's face mean?
Off one's face means extremely intoxicated, either by alcohol or drugs.
What part of speech is off one's face?
Off one's face is a prepositional phrase.

Words near off one's face in the dictionary

  1. off of
  2. off one's block
  3. off one's box
  4. off one's chump
  5. off one's dot
  6. off one's face
  7. off one's feed
  8. off one's game
  9. off one's guard
  10. off one's head
  11. off one's hinge

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