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  • noun Alternative spelling of offy.

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Examples

  • Look at the useless piece of shit that followed her in offie … ..

    Think Progress » Pentagon Disinvites Anti-Muslim Evangelist From Prayer Day Event, Palin Calls It A ‘Sad Day’ 2010

  • Unless it is a dustbowl of absolutely immense proportions, I also believe that Duminy will be employed as the second spinner for the opening encounter at Nagpur, leaving Johan Botha, the specialist "offie" in the tour party, kicking his heels.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • Unless it is a dustbowl of absolutely immense proportions, I also believe that Duminy will be employed as the second spinner for the opening encounter at Nagpur, leaving Johan Botha, the specialist "offie" in the tour party, kicking his heels.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • Unless it is a dustbowl of absolutely immense proportions, I also believe that Duminy will be employed as the second spinner for the opening encounter at Nagpur, leaving Johan Botha, the specialist "offie" in the tour party, kicking his heels.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • I despise those words because they conjure up ugly images of alcoholics buying cheap bottles of cider from the 'offie'.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • If it sells alcohol then it's an 'offie' (short for off-license - a shop that has a license from the local council to sell alcohol this is regardless of whether it only sells alcohol or sells groceries as well.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Laura, especially, couldn't work out why they stopped selling the gimp masks and the "harsher" restraints – "they're forgetting the fact that they have a licence," she said, indignant, as if she'd walked into an offie that only sold Schloer and Curly Wurlies.

    TV review: Undercover Boss; True Stories – Voices From the Killing Field 2011

  • I find it hard to believe that folk in Alabama are STILL ignorant enough to continue putting those redneck lying republicans in offie.

    Obama vs. Bush: Who had it easier on court nominations? 2010

  • Just after the offie at Portwood Tesco had to throw out one of your mates for racist and homophobic drunken splutterings.

    John Leech MP: Further Useless Parliamentary Efforts 2008

  • Oh, I quit the offie - wouldn't let me go to Borders on Friday.

    Could It Be, Yes It Could, Something's Coming, Something Good! Hal Duncan 2005

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  • Off License (Belfast)

    July 27, 2011