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off-key

[awf-kee, of-]

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adjective

1.

deviating from the correct tone or pitch; out of tune.

2.

Informal. somewhat irregular, abnormal, or incongruous.

Origin:
1925–30

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off-key

1929, from off + musical sense of key (1). Fig. sense is from 1943.

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