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off-colour
adjective
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ILLNESS AND DISABILITY
off-colour
British English
; off-color
American English
1
sexually offensive
:
off-color jokes
2
[
not before noun
]
British English
MI
slightly ill
:
She's been feeling a bit off-colour lately.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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