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What does off-color mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word off-color? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of the wrong color.
  2. (idiomatic) dirty, vulgar or obscene
  3. (idiomatic) different than usual
  4. (idiomatic) in poor health
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He tends to tell off-color jokes, use a lot of sexual innuendo and pepper his conversations with inappropriate words.
She paused to chuckle at an off-color joke someone felt the need to share with anyone listening.
Avoid trees with brown or off-color needles and trees exhibiting a large amount of needle drop.
It was yet another lesson in the effectiveness of live bait and an eye-opening class in how to catch fish in off-color water.
Just go see, they'll be knocking you around and making off-color jokes like they've known you for years.
For example, two people who like or respect one another may share some off-color humor, laugh, and consider it funny.

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