Usually means: Player positioned beyond last defender.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word offside:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. offside: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. offside, the offside: Merriam-Webster
  3. offside: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. offside: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. offside, the offside: Collins English Dictionary
  6. offside: Vocabulary.com
  7. Offside, offside: Wordnik
  8. offside, the offside: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. offside: Wiktionary
  10. offside: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. offside: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. offside: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. offside: Dictionary.com
  14. offside: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Offside (American football), Offside (TV Show), Offside (TV series), Offside (association football), Offside (bandy), Offside (field hockey), Offside (hockey), Offside (ice hockey), Offside (magazine), Offside (rugby), Offside (sport), Offside: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. offside: Rhymezone
  17. offside: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. offside: FreeDictionary.org
  19. offside: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. offside: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. offside: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offside: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. offside: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. offside: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Offside: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See offsides as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
adjective:  (by extension, slang) Out of bounds.
adjective:  (US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.
adjective:  (bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.
adjective:  To the side of a boat, opposite the primary side on which one paddles.
noun:  (sports) An offside play.
noun:  (British, Australia) The side of a road vehicle furthest from the kerb: the right side if one drives on the left of the road.
noun:  The right-hand side of a working animal such as a horse or bullock, especially when in harness.
noun:  (British) The side of a canal opposite the towpath.

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