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turn-off

 noun
     
Related topics: Roads
turn-off
1 [countable]TTR a smaller road that leads off a main road:
I missed the turn-off to the farm.
2 [singular] informal something that makes you lose interest in something, especially sex:
Pornographic pictures are a real turn-off to most women.

➔ turn off

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