1 a place where a road leads away from another larger or more important road:
We missed the turn-off for / to the airport.
2 [usuallysing.] (informal) a person or thing that people do not find interesting, attractive or sexually exciting:
The city's crime rate is a serious turn-off to potential investors. * I find beards a real turn-off.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for turn-off is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is turn-off a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, turn-off is tagged as noun.
Does turn-off appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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