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alt. 1 inaccurate, or inaccurately predicted. 2 With a lack of accuracy. prep.phr. 1 inaccurate, or inaccurately predicted. 2 With a lack of accuracy.
Usage examples of "off target".
Targeting screens blossomed with false images, sucking his sublight weapons off target.
Fortunately, most of the fire was off target, down and to her left.
The end of the string traveled upward and off target, but most of them hammered into the area where the scummies had taken cover.
As the air war progressed, the flares were color-coded daily to prevent German decoy flares from drawing the incoming bombers off target.
She had the satisfaction, however, of the barest glimpse of an alien head literally exploding before the recoil knocked her scope off target.
The device in less than a second gave him numbers for elevation of the barrel and deflection off target.
They were twenty million klicks off target, a submicroscopic jump.
Anyway, we were dropped five miles off target right in the lap of a crack German outfit.
Most we can do is push them off target--and maybe hit some town we haven't warned.