Usually means: Possibility, though unlikely to happen.
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  1. off chance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. off chance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. off-chance, off-chance, off chance: Collins English Dictionary
  4. off-chance: Wordnik
  5. off chance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. off-chance, off chance: Wiktionary
  7. off chance: Dictionary.com
  8. off-chance, off chance: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. off chance: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (off chance)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A possibility that is not likely or probable.

Similar:
unlikely, contingent, one of those things, venture, occasionalism, accident, noninstance, unhappening, accidental, unexpected, more...

Opposite:
sure thing, certainty, probability, likelihood

Phrases:
on the off chance, more...

Adjectives:
chance, needfull, needly, needy, needful, necessary, nessary, maybe, wis, nay, med



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Similar:
unlikely, contingent, one of those things, venture, occasionalism, accident, noninstance, unhappening, accidental, unexpected, more...

Opposite:
sure thing, certainty, probability, likelihood

Phrases:
on the off chance, more...

Adjectives:
chance, needfull, needly, needy, needful, necessary, nessary, maybe, wis, nay, med



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