Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being a product sold inexpensively under a relatively unfamiliar brand name and often considered inferior to better known brands.
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- noun Attributive form of
off brand
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Examples
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Also, my off-brand Irish cream sank to the bottom.
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If it was off-brand for us, you couldn't give us $100,000.
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Instead of pursing its lips as stoner skaters wear off-brand, cheeky riffs on its slogan, Nike has opted to enter the market.
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Also, my off-brand Irish cream sank to the bottom.
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"People are going to say this is off-brand for Starbucks," he told a crowd of about 100 reporters and Wall Street analysts at an event in New York.
Starbucks Instant Coffee To Debut In Seattle, Chicago - The Consumerist 2009
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Instead of pursing its lips as stoner skaters wear off-brand, cheeky riffs on its slogan, Nike has opted to enter the market.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of apps available for mobile phones, though most estimates put the figure as high as 11 billion, if you count off-brand apps that have not yet found an app store willing to sell them.
New Apps: Thinking Outside the Litter Box Joe Queenan 2011
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Even better, unlike many other promotional sales events, such as Black Friday, where the focus is often on off-brand TVs or stripped-to-the-bone models, this is a great opportunity to get a TV loaded with features, including 3D, Internet connectivity, and in the case of LCD sets, LED backlights and 240Hz technology.
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Our current financial situation is such that some worry about our ability to support a second child – but the thing is, we can do it by making little changes here and there: buying off-brand groceries, dining out once a month instead of once a week, forgoing satellite television.
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In the Digital Picture Frame search, for example, the frame that ranks a 9.7 score (almost perfect) is an off-brand, low-rez frame with a mediocre rating from Amazon customers.
Gazaro Rates Gadget Sales Based On Historical Price Data - The Consumerist 2009
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