Alternative form of on and off / (nautical) On different tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land.

Alternative form of on-and-off

Away from; off.

(idiomatic) Intermittently.

The quality of being off (in various senses).

Vacillating, undecided, intermittent.

Alternative spelling of -ov

Abbreviation of office. / Abbreviation of offence. / Abbreviation of offender.

Alternative form of on-off

Inoperative, disabled. / Cancelled; not happening. / Not fitted; not being worn. / Rancid, rotten, gone bad. / (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.