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Meaning of oi | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
/ɔɪ/

Definitions

  1. A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
    Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, capitalized, impolite, sometimes, uncountable, usually
  2. Initialism of opportunistic infection.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. Initialism of osteogenesis imperfecta.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. Abbreviation of object of interest.
    abbreviation, alt-of

Examples

“A way for Oi musicians to avoid responsibility for acts of violence that were preceded by listening to Oi is the claim that what people do with their music is out of the control of the musicians themselves.”
“Oi! is characterized by cleaner guitars and slower tempos than most punk music, and many Oi! songs feature sing-along, "soccer chant" choruses.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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