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off-limits
Word definitions for off-limits in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"forbidden," by 1881, U.S. military academies jargon, from off (adv.) + limit (n.). Earlier (1857) it was applied to cadets, etc., who were in violation of the limitations on their movement and behavior.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-limits \off-limits\ adj. barred to a designated group; as, the topless bar is off-lints to military personnel. Syn: out-of-bounds(predicate).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. barred to a designated group; "that area is off-limits" [syn: out-of-bounds(p) ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not to be entered or used; restricted.
Usage examples of off-limits.
INTO THE ABYSS On the day after the Trade Center bombing, as he moved across the fractured B-l level below the Towers, Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca had no idea that the area would soon be off-limits to the Bureau of Fire Investigation.
A chief was addressing them in fatherly tones, warning them that the district known as Klong Toey, famous as a rough waterfront strip in Bangkok, was strictly off-limits to all Navy personnel.
Klong Toey, an idea that terrified Howard since the waterfront district was strictly off-limits to American military personnel.
Deep-space freighters hauled helium-3 from Jupiter to feed the fusion tokamaks on Earth, and although Queen Macedonia had placed Titan off-limits because of the Plague, the Iapetus colony was still operational.
His personal Zendo was off-limits to everyone, including his housekeeper and his son.
Kent Slakken and Bodine Cromps set out with their snowboards for an off-limits, high-avalanche-danger area near Vail and were never heard from again.
Although they wondered about Olympus, about whether those strange superwomen whose world was off-limits to all were sincere in their religion or practicing a new and slow but effective form of conquest.
Steve Winer may be a student and potential murderer, and therefore off-limits.
A chief was addressing them in fatherly tones, warning them that the district known as Klong Toey, famous as a rough waterfront strip in Bangkok, was strictly off-limits to all Navy personnel.
And the kitchen is also off-limits because I am whipping up a few cakes for tea .
Empire either belonged to or had been declared off-limits by Jabba - and nobody was crazy enough to cross the Hutt crime lord.
America off-limits to challenge is that it provides pleasant code words for the ugliest corner of the American psyche.
Greedo leaped back as three repulsor bikes whipped past, jumped a broken retaining wall, and disappeared into one of the crowded concourses that had been de clared off-limits by Uncle Nok.
The office complex that was strictly off-limits to everyone except Sanchez and his handpicked staff.
Although they wondered about Olympus, about whether those strange superwomen whose world was off-limits to all were sincere in their religion or practicing a new and slow but effective form of conquest.