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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
turn-off
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hair on a guy's back is a real turn-off.
▪ I think that was the turn-off for the campground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Take I-10 east, turning south at the Sonoita turn-off.
▪ The spectacle can be weird, unpleasant, a turn-off.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
turn-off

"something that dampens one's spirits" recorded by 1971 (said to have been in use since 1968), from verbal phrase turn off "stop the flow of" (1850), from turn (v.) + off (adv.). Turn-off (n.) as "place where one road diverges from another" is from 1881.

Wiktionary
turn-off

n. 1 (context idiomatic English) Something that repulses, disgusts, or discourages, especially sexually. 2 A road where one turn_off like a motorway exit.

Usage examples of "turn-off".

This time Craig did not have to be warned of the hidden turn-off, and he swung onto the track that led past the cemetery, down the avenues of spathodea trees to the whitewashed staff cottages of Khami Mission.

When a police Range Rover tailed her from Walsall to the M42 turn-off, she almost sent her own car into the crash barriers at the centre of the road.

After nearly being knocked down by a gamboling Brittany spaniel she began to look for a turn-off.

I dived on to a roundabout near the central station in the city centre and drove around it, indicating at every turn-off, but swerving back on at the last moment.

The truck continued to the end of the road where the driver idled the engine for a few seconds while he decided which turn-off to take.

And early the next day, when turn-off time came, he was deep in the forest two hundred miles away, and the office of the Ticktockman blanked his cardioplate, and Marshall Delahanty keeled over, running, and his heart stopped, and the blood dried up on its way to his brain, and he was dead thats all.

And early the next day, when turn-off time came, he was deep in the forest two hundred miles away, and the office of the Ticktockman blanked his cardioplate, and Marshall Delahanty keeled over, running, and his heart stopped, and the blood dried up on its way to his brain, and he was dead that's all.

Near the turn-off for Everglades National Park and convenient to the Keys it was often packed on weekends.

They could have gotten into the city proper faster by taking any one of the several turn-offs they had passed, but Maskelle wanted to go directly to the Temple City.

Now, about midway between those turn-offs there's the Shore Points Diner, on the west side of the road.

Pressed, Peter Grundy had only been able to come up with either the village hall in Longnor or this depressing annexe to the Methodist Chapel that squatted on the main road just past the Scardale turn-off.