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Definition of First off
1. Adverb. Before anything else. "First we must consider the garter snake"
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Off
Literary usage of First off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"first off,—for the first thing, the beginning: as "The first off of the morning,"
for the first thing in the morning ; " It was the first off of his ..."
2. Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various Translations by William Taylor (1830)
"first off. I was passing And saw and heard him: he is very bold; ... first off.
It cannot pass unnoticed. Satellites Are gathering round him slowly. BRAHE. ..."
3. Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various Translations by William Taylor (1830)
"first off. I was passing And saw and heard him: he is very bold; ... first off.
It cannot pass unnoticed. Satellites Are gathering round him slowly. BRAHE. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"first off. He stopped his ears with black wool, and to those came to him for
money said ... first off. Yes, and the chippings of the buttery fly after him, ..."
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