Definitions for turnoff

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turnoff turn·off

Spelling: [turn-awf, -of]

IPA: /ˈtɜrnˌɔf, -ˌɒf/

Turnoff is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in turnoff (ffnortu).

Definitions for turnoff

noun

1. a small road that branches off from a larger one, especially a ramp or exit leading off a major highway:
2. a place at which one diverges from or changes a former course.
3. an act of turning off.
4. the finished product of a certain manufacturing process, as weaving.
5. the quantity of fattened livestock distributed to market.
6. Slang. something or someone that makes one unsympathetic or antagonistic.

Origin of turnoff

First recorded in 1680-90; noun use of verb phrase turn off

Examples for turnoff

Rick braked to a stop as the highway met the turnoff to Easton.

A turnoff to darkness has been deliberately taken, superstition has been embraced while knowledge has been destroyed.

He told the boys how he planted himself at the Pahrump Valley turnoff because the sedan would have to turn on lights there.

Rick swung into the Seaford turnoff and slowed for the main street.

He met the captain at the corner of the "turnoff" one day late in August.

They reached the pumice works without seeing the geologist's lights again, and Rick stopped at the turnoff.

But one incident was such a turnoff for him that it nearly got him off booze himself.

A few miles before the town of Lathrop Wells, Scotty spotted their turnoff.

Former contributors to the site attest that the ruling "in-crowd" is a turnoff for new users.