off-mike

[awf-mahyk, of-]

adjective

1. located at a distance from or not projected directly into a microphone.

   off-mike sound effects.

Word History and Origins

Origin of off-mike¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

You’re never off-mike — you can’t turn your head and say some little comment to somebody.

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Despite the off-mike action, on the air that final morning, Ryder said the mass firing “was a surprise to all of us.”

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“It was those comments, the off-mike things, that made Phil so funny,” Ossman said.

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Holiday, like all great artists, is as distinctive, as idiosyncratic, as original off-stage and off-mike as on.

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“We just did!” muttered one off-mike Republican.

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