Meanings
- slangExtremely intoxicated, either by alcohol or drugs.
I try as much as possible not to judge other parents, but when, after midnight, you see a baby in ear defenders being hauled in a cart through a crowd of adults, all of whom are off their faces, while the infant cowers under a blanket, it doesn’t really seem in their best interests.
2023 June 30, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, “I’ll never be a true hippie parent, but I can learn a lot from summer festival-goers”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: off one's head
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseExtremely intoxicated, either by alcohol or drugs.
Cite this entry
off one's face. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off%20one's%20face
“off one's face.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off%20one's%20face. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “off one's face,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off%20one's%20face.
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