Usually means: Inappropriate, often with sexual innuendos.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word off-color:

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  1. off-color: Merriam-Webster
  2. off-color: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. off-color: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. off-color, off-color: Collins English Dictionary
  5. off-color: Vocabulary.com
  6. off-color: Wordnik
  7. off-color: Wiktionary
  8. off-color: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. off-color: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. off-color: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. off-color: Dictionary.com
  12. off-color: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. off-color: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Off-color: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. off-color: Rhymezone
  16. off-color: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. off-color: FreeDictionary.org
  18. off-color: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. off-color: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off-color: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off-color: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of the wrong color.
adjective:  (idiomatic) Dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant.
adjective:  (idiomatic) Different than usual.
adjective:  (idiomatic) Feeling mildly unwell.

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