Pronunciations
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/ɔɪ/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Interjection
Said to get someone's attention; hey.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Hong-Kong
- Ireland
- UK usage
- impolite
- usually
- Examples
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Oi, you with the red hat – what do you think you're doing?
Oi! Stop that!
An expression of surprise.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Hong-Kong
- Ireland
- UK usage
- impolite
- usually
- Examples
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Oi! This is new!
An informal greeting, similar to hi.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Hong-Kong
- Ireland
- UK usage
- impolite
- usually
- Examples
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Oi! How's it going?
Noun
An exclamation of 'oi'.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Hong-Kong
- Ireland
- UK usage
- Countable
- impolite
- usually
- Examples
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Such is the vocal power of water bailiffs and farmers that their ‘Ois!’ can be projected at small boys from anything up to five miles away and still induce heart-failure.
A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Hong-Kong
- Ireland
- UK usage
- capitalized
- impolite
- sometimes
- Uncountable
- usually
- Examples
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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.
Pronoun
Eye dialect of I
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Hong-Kong
- Ireland
- UK usage
- impolite
- usually
- Examples
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Why, where be oi, and what be oi a doin’, / A sleepin’ out, just when the dews du rise?