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offsider

offsider noun: a partner, assistant, or deputy.

Noun

offsider (plural offsiders)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A partner, assistant, or deputy.
    • Kidman, riding hell for leather and carrying a heavy stockwhip, caught up with him soon after, or rather with his offsider, who was tailing the mob, and demanded an explanation for their trespassing.
    • “Don′t ask me,” said the offsider. “You see the boss.”1987, Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King, published 2010, unnumbered page

Forms of offsider

pluraloffsiders

Origin of offsider

From offside + -er.

Questions about offsider

What does offsider mean?
Offsider means a partner, assistant, or deputy.
What part of speech is offsider?
Offsider is a noun.
What is the plural of offsider?
The plural of offsider is offsiders.

Words near offsider in the dictionary

  1. offshorization
  2. offside
  3. offside rule
  4. offside trap
  5. offside traps
  6. offsider
  7. offsiders
  8. offsides
  9. offsite
  10. offsites
  11. offski

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