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off guard

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. napping, off-guard(a), off guard(p), off one's guard(p), off his guard, off her guard, off your guardadjective

    not prepared or vigilant

    "the blow caught him napping"; "caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his guard"

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  1. off guardadjective

    Not vigilant; unprepared; inattentive.

Wikipedia

  1. off guard

    The shooting guard (SG), also known as the two, two guard or off guard, is one of the five traditional positions in a regulation basketball game. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for their team and steal the ball on defense. Some teams ask their shooting guards to bring up the ball as well; these players are known colloquially as combo guards. A player who can switch between playing shooting guard and small forward is known as a swingman. In the NBA, shooting guards usually range from 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) to 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) while in the WNBA, shooting guards tend to be between 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) and 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m).

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  1. off guard

    Off guard refers to a state of being unprepared, unsuspecting, or not alert, typically due to surprise or sudden occurrence of an event or situation. It often implies a temporary loss of control or composure.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of off guard in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of off guard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of off guard in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Taylor:

    It catches a lot of hikers, tourists coming in from out of the area off guard, and it's very dry.

  2. Joshua Salomon:

    Basically, it gives you an insurance policy against things we may not be able to anticipate, the virus has really kind of caught us off guard in a few instances.

  3. Arthur Schopenhauer:

    It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

  4. Jason Chappell:

    It really caught everyone off guard, no one was forecasting that amount of rain.

  5. Marco Rubio:

    Well, I had hoped in this process we would have -- the voters would wake up and see what Donald Trump is, a con artist, and I think we were all caught off guard by how much the attention in coverage has really lifted him.


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