OTC

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A form of over-the-counter — Of medicine and other treatments, legal for sale or distribution without the requirement of a prescription.

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over-the-counterunlisted
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Meanings

adjective
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of over-the-counter.

    The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules[…]

    1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60
    1 more example

    By adopting complementary products used in biotech, over-the-counter (OTC), nutritional, cosmetic, or other fine chemical consumers, their cost basis is further diluted to help maintain competitiveness.

    2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):8
  2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of order-to-cash.
  3. abbreviationinitialismslangInitialism of off the charts.
nounOTC (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
  2. abbreviationinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of Officer in tactical command (in NATO)
  3. abbreviationinitialismslanguncountablelifestyleInitialism of one true character; a fictional character one favors to the exclusion of others.

    Lucina is actually still my otc (one true character) at heart.

    2016 February 17, Memo[Guillermo] (@HitoBitoSSB), Twitter
    2 more examples

    I don't have a OTP but Snape is my OTC. I've only written one HP fic without him.

    2023 June 16, Web_singer, Reddit

    Lately it seems like most ships are less like OTPs or OT3+ where shippers are equally invested in the mutual dynamic of all characters involved but instead are like how can my OTC (One True Character) have their every whim catered to, every physical/emotional be taken care and being ravished on the daily by their hot love interest(s) who don’t have any needs of their own beyond needing to love the OTC.

    2026 January 30, Suitable-Self, Reddit
proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismorganizationInitialism of Offshore Technology Conference
  2. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Officers Training Corps (part of the British Army).
  3. AustraliaabbreviationhistoricalinitialismInitialism of Overseas Telecommunications Commission, a defunct department of the Australian government.
  4. PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Office of Transportation Cooperatives.
prepositional phrase
  1. InternetabbreviationinitialismslangInitialism of on the cheek.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjective(of securities) not traded on a stock exchange

Similar
over-the-counterunlisted
Also see
order to cashover-the-counterunlisted

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

OTC. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OTC

MLA

“OTC.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OTC. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “OTC,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OTC.

Source: OTC on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.