[Ads-l] day-off, n.

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 29 12:12:24 UTC 2016


A candidate:

"All those day-offs and she still can't make it to her car. That's tough."

OED shrewdly offers no plural forms. Singulars from 1853.

JL

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