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turnoff

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turn⋅off

  [turn-awf, -of]
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–noun
1. a small road that branches off from a larger one, esp. a ramp or exit leading off a major highway: He took the wrong turnoff and it took him some 15 minutes to get back on the turnpike.
2. a place at which one diverges from or changes a former course.
3. an act of turning off.
4. the finished product of a certain manufacturing process, as weaving.
5. the quantity of fattened livestock distributed to market.
6. Slang. something or someone that makes one unsympathetic or antagonistic.
Origin:
1680–90; n. use of v. phrase turn off
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turn·off   (tûrn'ôf', -ŏf')   
n.  

  1. A branch of a road or path leading away from a main thoroughfare, especially an exit on a highway.

  2. The act or an instance of turning off.

  3. Slang

    1. One that is distasteful: The evening was a real turnoff.

    2. Something that causes loss of interest.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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