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The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-limits

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).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
off-limits

"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.

Wiktionary
off-limits

a. Not to be entered or used; restricted.

WordNet
off-limits

adj. barred to a designated group; "that area is off-limits" [syn: out-of-bounds(p)]

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.