Usually means: Unconventional, differing from normal rhythm.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word offbeat:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. offbeat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. offbeat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. offbeat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. offbeat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. offbeat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Offbeat, offbeat: Wordnik
  7. offbeat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. offbeat: Wiktionary
  9. offbeat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. offbeat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. offbeat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. offbeat: Dictionary.com
  13. offbeat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. OffBeat (music magazine), OffBeat, Offbeat (film), Offbeat (music), Offbeat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. offbeat: Rhymezone
  16. offbeat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. offbeat: Free Dictionary
  18. offbeat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. offbeat: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offbeat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offbeat: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. offbeat: The Folk File
  2. Offbeat: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
noun:  (slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
adjective:  Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.

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