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OTBC

OTBC is the initialism of On the Ball.

Meaning of On the Ball

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Alert, active, or attentive; on top of things.
    • If I had been more on the ball I would have asked when he called me.
  2. Being in control of the ball.
    • ...Rovers were also aided by some poor defending from West Brom, whose lapses at the back undid their excellent work on the ball and condemned Roberto di Matteo's Baggies side to a third straight defeat.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
  3. (Australian rules football) Playing as a midfielder.

Questions about OTBC

What is OTBC the initialism of?
OTBC is the initialism of On the Ball.

Words near OTBC in the dictionary

  1. Otavi
  2. otavite
  3. otax
  4. otay
  5. OTB
  6. OTBC
  7. otbd
  8. OTBS
  9. OTC
  10. OTD
  11. OTE

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OTBC (page history and authors); on the ball (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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