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Definition of Offside

1. Noun. (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.).

2. 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"

3. Adverb. Illegally in advance of the ball or puck.

Definition of Offside

1. Adjective. (sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball ¹

2. Adjective. (American English) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk, e.g. an offside diner (restaurant.) ¹

3. Adjective. (bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse. ¹

4. Noun. (context: sports) An offside play ¹

5. Noun. (British) the right side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Offside

1. an improper football play [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Offside

offset lithography offset printing offsets offsetted offsetting offsetting balance offsettings offshoot offshoots offshorable

offshore offshore rig offshored offshores offshoring offside (current term) offside trap offside traps offsider offsiders

offsides offsite offski offskip offskips offslip offsmite offspeed offspinner offspinners

Literary usage of Offside

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, William Dean Pulvermacher (1916)
"An opponent playing the ball puts a player onside at once, but while standing offside a player must not interfere in any way with an opponent or with the ..."

2. The Scots Law Times by Scotland Land Court (1893)
"The defender admits that he did not see the pursuers until they were in front of the offside of his car and about a car's length—some 13 feet—ahead of his ..."

3. The "House" on Sport by Members of the London Stock Exchange by William Alphonse Morgan, England Stock Exchange (London, Stock Exchange (London, England) (1898)
"No. i (red) becomes offside, and he must let No. ... A player offside is entirely out of the game and may take no part in any way until he is put on side ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"No player can be offside when within his own half of the ground. ... offside—Same as in Association Football (yv); only a player cannot be offside in ..."

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