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Definition of Offsides
1. Adjective. Illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck. "The touchdown was nullified because the left tackle was offside"
Definition of Offsides
1. Noun. (plural of offside) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Offsides
1. offside [n] - See also: offside
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offsides
Literary usage of Offsides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles in Mount Desert: With Sketches of Travel on the New England Coast by Benjamin Franklin DeCosta (1871)
"They acknowledged my own with a waving of hats ; but Echo took it up and sent it
back with perfect distinctness from the far-offsides of Mount Mansell. ..."
2. The Mathematician by Thomas Stephens Davies, Stephen Fenwick, William Rutherford (1856)
"Inscribe a regular (plane) polygon offsides in any great circle, and through its
poles L and M, and the angles of the polygons pass planes as in (1), ..."
3. The Modern Preceptor Or a General Course of Education by John Dougall (1810)
"EXAMPLE Vf. To find (he contents of a trapezium (page S55), or figure offsides,
none of which are equal or parallel to any other side, such as appears in ..."
4. Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officiers by James Fenimore Cooper (1846)
"Landais' conduct, that the moon had now been up some time, and that it was very
easy to distinguish the ships by their offsides ; that of the Se- rapis ..."
5. University Chronicle by University of Michigan (1879)
"... the rules with their everlasting " touch down," "touch in goals," "offsides
and " punts"—we must be imbued with the spirit, live in the atmosphere of ..."
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