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

District Judge Otis Wright II in Los Angeles refused to block the laws on the grounds they “regulate commercial speech,” which gets less protection under the 1st Amendment.

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If he looks and sounds like an art professor it’s because he is, having recently started working at his alma mater, Otis College of Art and Design — usually in Comme des Garçons, no less.

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Cohen, who plays bullied employee Otis, conjured up his character’s love for peanut M&M’s, while Temple, who plays the girlfriend of one of Manchester’s friends, saw her character as a hairdresser.

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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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