off-brand adj.
1. of a person, odd, peculiar, inferior, atypical – outside the group or group norm.
Tales Manchaca Hills 109: There was a sprinkling of [...] Cambellites, but these off-brand folk attended our Sunday-school meetings and church services [DARE]. | ||
Vice Lords 25: This is our territory ‘cause can’t nobody come through—no off-brand clubs. [...] We have mostly all of it up tight. | ||
Choirboys (1976) 93: I think most a them is Communists or some other off brand types. | ||
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 42: Like everybody [...] stylin’, and some old off-brand dude come up here like wid a pair of tennis shoes on, levis, and a ruffled-up shirt and everybody got they slack suit on and everything. | ||
🎵 I see some off-brand niggers on the corner flagging me down. | ‘Serial Killa’||
Wire ser. 1 ep. 4 [TV script] I’m just too bad for that off-brand little-boy bullshit. | ‘Old Cases’||
Seven Demons 139: Yes the Swiss and yes stole I know I know it is off-brand. |
2. (also no-brand) unfashionable, esp. when wearing too many (clashing) colours.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 42: Like if he’s wearin’ checkered pants an’ everybody else is wearing flairs, den he be off brand. | ||
Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 26: P.F. Flyers or some other cheap, off-brand shit. [Ibid.] 209: A small, off-brand town in rural Virginia. | ||
On the Bro’d 236: [A] scrawny little asshole in like an off-brand Pony polo. | ||
Crongton Knights 71: Why did he wear such no-brand everything-must-go sale shoes? | ||
Dirtbag, Massachusetts 202: A child with zero dollars [going to] off-brand Supercuts. |
3. second-rate.
Ghetto Sketches 69: Committin’ any kind of little funny, off-brand crime in order to make sure I had a wake-up shot. | ||
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 248: off-brand adj. [...] 2. Inferior (in quality). | ||
Corner (1998) 19: ‘Off-brand, purple-ass dinosaur,’ mutters DeAndre. | ||
Right As Rain 86: They’re selling some off-brand, two steps down from cold duck, for fifty dollars a bottle to those poor suckers in here. | ||
Wire ser. 4 ep. 1 [TV script] What I want with some off-brand hilltop corner? | ‘Boys of Summer’||
Straight Dope [ebook] A big off-brand flat-screen plays Mexican soccer. |
In compounds
(drugs) a marijuana cigarette.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 172: The fact that a marijuana cigarette is not quite the conventional cigarette is reflected in terms like off-brand cigarette. |