off duty

phrase

: free from assignment or responsibility

a police officer who was off duty at the time

Examples of off duty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And in North Carolina, a police officer was charged with unlawfully accessing computers after allegedly using her department’s license plate reader system to look up the vehicle of her boyfriend’s ex-wife 31 times, including twice while off duty. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026

Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz took two very different trending shoes off duty in New York on Wednesday. — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026

The Upper West Side Claremont’s Pizza is Owen’s place of work and makes several appearances throughout the film, both when Owen is at work and off duty. — Alex Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2026

Rafael Jones has served more than a decade of a life sentence for the death of Moses Walker, who police say was shot and killed while off duty during a botched robbery. — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for off duty

• agouti
• beauty
• booty
• cutie
• fruity
• putti
• snooty
• sooty
• sruti
• tutti