on-again, off-again

English

Adjective

on-again, off-again (not comparable)

  1. (of a significant other such as a boyfriend or girlfriend) Intermittent; frequent but irregular.
    • 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
      But the screenplay, from Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, diverts too often to inert scenes of Lewis’ struggles at school, and a subplot about his on-again, off-again friendship with bully Tarby Corrigan (Sunny Suljic) feels like a distraction from the magical business at hand.

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Usage notes
  • The punctuation varies significantly; in particular, the hyphens are frequently replaced with spaces, and the comma is sometimes omitted entirely.
  • This adjective is nearly always used attributively.
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