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ois

ois is the plural of oi.

Meaning of oi

Noun

oi (countable and uncountable, plural ois)

  1. (Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, countable, impolite) An exclamation of 'oi'.
    • Such is the vocal power of water bailiffs and farmers that their ‘Ois!’ can be projected at small boys from anything up to five miles away and still induce heart-failure.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 56
  2. (Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, capitalized, impolite) A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
    • A way for Oi musicians to avoid responsibility for acts of violence that were preceded by listening to Oi is the claim that what people do with their music is out of the control of the musicians themselves.1997, David Schwarz, Listening subjects: music, psychoanalysis, culture

See all 6 meanings of oi

Noun (1) capitalized: OIS

OIS (countable and uncountable, plural OIS)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of officer-involved shooting.
    • But an objective overview of the current literature and research associated with post-OIS officer support compared to various aspects of the research ...2007, David E. Hatch, Randy Dickson, Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 188
    • Officer-involved shooting (OIS) investigations are directed at the determination of whether the shooter officer's decision to use deadly force was "objectively reasonable […]"2017, Darrell L. Ross, Gary M. Vilke, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody, Routledge, →ISBN, page 285
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of optical image stabilization.

Noun (2) capitalized: OIs

OIs

  1. (plural) plural of OI

Forms of ois

pluralOIS

Questions about ois

What is ois the plural of?
Ois is the plural of oi.
What part of speech is ois?
Ois is a noun.
What is the plural of ois?
The plural of ois is OIS.

Words near ois in the dictionary

  1. Oirds
  2. Oireachtas
  3. Oireland
  4. Oirish
  5. Oirschot
  6. ois
  7. OISC
  8. Oiscing
  9. Oiscings
  10. OISCs
  11. Oise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ois (page history and authors); OIS (page history and authors); OIs (page history and authors); oi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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