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off-limits
[ awf-lim-its, of- ]
adjective
- forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons:
The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.
off limits
adjective
- not to be entered; out of bounds
adverb
- in or into an area forbidden by regulations
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of off-limits1
Example Sentences
The tunnel is usually off-limits when it is filled and coursing with a massive stream of Colorado River water.
Theater had seemed to be an inclusive space “like an island of misfit toys,” she said, but television was a medium she viewed as largely off-limits to her.
We were not permitted to interview the crew, and politics would have been off-limits anyway, but some of those on board were curious what I thought of the new administration.
Apartment dwellings, considered synonymous with urban blight, were banned in favor of single-family homes, while mostly white suburbs were kept off-limits to Black Americans and other minorities.
The Westwood campus has increased restrictions on protests since fall — making the majority of public areas off-limits to demonstrations without permits — and upped the presence of campus security guards.
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