Otis

[oh-tis]

noun

1. Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.

2. Harrison Gray, 1837–1917, U.S. army officer and newspaper publisher.

3. James, 1725–83, American lawyer and public official who is supposed to have first used the phrase “Taxation without representation” (brother of Mercy Otis Warren).

4. a male given name.

Example Sentences

On Tuesday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Otis Sterling III sentenced Rodriguez to a one-year jail term and 10 years of probation.

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My folks are a little older so I grew up listening to a lot of music that Bruce listened to — Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, the Beatles, the Stones, Aretha Franklin.

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“The minute someone feels young, it means they don’t have musical credibility, which is so not the case with Ty. I mean, he’s basically John Mayer and Otis Redding in an 18-year-old’s body.”

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Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, the famously combative owner of the Los Angeles Times, published an editorial in 1882 warning: “Don’t feed the worthless chaps. It only encourages them in their idleness and viciousness.”

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"I wanted to always sound like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, so that's the way I went," he says.

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