noun Cricket.
the position of a fielder on the off side of the wicket.
the fielder occupying this position.
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Origin of mid off
First recorded in 1880–85
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How to use mid off in a sentence
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
So they often occured mid-paragraph; here they have been moved to a more appropriate place.
Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
While she flitted into the next room to fetch a stamp, Mrs. Haughstone, her needles arrested in mid-air, looked steadily at Tom.
British Dictionary definitions for mid off
noun cricket
the fielding position on the off side closest to the bowler
a fielder in this position
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