offside
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- adjective
- /ˈɔfˌsaɪd/
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fuera de juego
- The referee ruled that the goal was disallowed because the player was offside.
- offside penalty
- offside rule
- offside call
Fast playing I've I've inched and I've just caught him offside of what it called.
- Fast playing I've I've inched and I've just caught him offside of what it called.
Examples
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Andrew Luck, believing he had a free play due to a Chicago player obviously jumping offside, threw deep and was intercepted.
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I thought he might have been offside, but I was happy it wasn't.
Blog text (15) -
- That was way offside.
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No way was that offside!
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How could that have been offside?!
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The one goal they scored was an offside goal, and he was pretty safe and solid on all things.
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I'm trying to teach your mother the offside rule.
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It's come all the way back to Neville, are they offside?
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That was offside!
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Surely that was offside.
Synonyms
Not allowed because a player is past the allowed line or ahead of the ball
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Offside comes from the words off meaning 'away' or 'not' and side meaning 'position' or 'area'. So in sports like football and hockey, to be offside is to be in the 'wrong' position that the rules do not allow.