Definitions for offside

offside off·side

Spelling: [awf-sahyd, of-]
IPA: /ˈɔfˈsaɪd, ˈɒf-/

Offside is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in offside (deffios).

Definitions for offside

adjective, adverb

  1. Sports. illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or in advance of the ball or puck at the beginning of or during play or a play:
  2. with or in doubtful propriety or taste; risqué:

Origin of offside

First recorded in 1840-50; off + side1

Examples for offside

The main principle is that any one who is not “offside” is in play.

The back awaits it, coolly enough; knowing that Damer's forwards are offside.

Replays showed that he was level with the last defender, certainly not offside.

He pulled a rein, and brought the light of the offside lamp to bear on a milestone with a bill pasted upon it.

The offside flap had been torn off, so had both stirrup-irons, the stirrup leather remained.

We should probably have scored more had not the forwards been 'offside' so often.

The biggest bugbear that the referee has to contend with is the penalty and offside restrictions.

Yet, as Mr. William Pickford has pointed out, a player could be offside with eleven opponents in front of him.

It was an offside play, he declared, because it wasn't a king at all.

Lift the offside pack into position with its forward end even with the forward fork, lifting the pack well up to the forks.

Word Value for offside
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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