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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
offstage
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Offstage, Peter always seemed a quiet, shy sort of person.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But until then, the mustachioed 44-year-old with drowsy eyes is remaining scrupulously offstage.
▪ Halie, his wife, spends a lot of time offstage.
▪ He rushed offstage and up to Lesley-Jane's dressing room.
▪ In the first London stage production, Sweeney pursued Doris with a razor, and her screams were heard offstage.
▪ Miki then dives offstage during Ministry's set.
▪ She herself did not expect to lead: she had all the success and power she needed, offstage.
▪ The two were as different offstage as on.
▪ Though Cosby joked about it, Ennis' school performance in those years was anything but funny offstage.
Wiktionary
offstage

a. 1 Of, or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience 2 (context of a celebrity English) Of, or relating to private life adv. Taking place offstage (as above) alt. 1 Of, or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience 2 (context of a celebrity English) Of, or relating to private life

WordNet
offstage

  1. adj. situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience; "offstage noises" [ant: onstage]

  2. withheld from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings"

  3. n. a stage area out of sight of the audience [syn: wing, backstage]

  4. adv. behind the scenes; not on stage; "the actors were waiting offstage" [ant: onstage]

  5. not in public; "the deal was done offstage"

Usage examples of "offstage".

Accompanied by a great, brassy fanfare from the orchestra, each woman posed by the footlights in her rustling Paris finery before moving offstage.

The struthio jumped and shook the bag loose, then chased all three clowns offstage.

Night had never been as good, though there were those who found him much less approachable offstage: getting swellheaded, they said, what with the royal command and all.

After a time, a mainly rocky scene shifted to a meadowlike one and young Donnerjack made his way into it, offstage.

Cee Cee remembered wistfullythose days of playing small clubs with Hal, and how she used to beable to stand offstage about to do her encore, and peek through thecurtain, trying to psych out the mood of the audience by their faces,and to figure out if they'd prefer "Knock Me a Kiss" or "Guess WhoI Saw Today.

Because budget and broom-closet constraints make artful transitions between scenes impractical, Mario has opted for the inter-scenic 'entr'acte' device of having Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner doing some of his repertoire's bouncier numbers, with the cabinet-members undulating and harmonizing Motownishly behind him, and other puppets bouncing in tempo on and offstage as the script requires.

Seeing someone offstage left, where he is facing, THOMAS waves, calls out as he descends from the veranda and WILLIAM follows to downstage left.

I spent hours capering about in quiet places offstage, whenever Macgregor didn't need me, trying to be like Sir John, trying to get style even into Kiss my arse.

I pushed a plate of oyster shells, arranged to look like real oysters on the half shell (yuk), away from the edge of the table and darted offstage.

The exercise-yard door opened and Delacroix came in, escorted by Brutal, who was carrying the cigar box with the colored spool in it, the way the magician's assistant in a vaudeville show might carry the boss's props offstage at the end of the act.