off-the-shoulder

1. 1.

   not covering the shoulders (especially in the case of a blouse or dress)

   Similarunclothed

Questions about off-the-shoulder

What does off-the-shoulder mean?

off-the-shoulder means "not covering the shoulders (especially in the case of a blouse or dress)".

How many syllables are in off-the-shoulder?

off-the-shoulder has 4 syllables: off--the--shoul-der. The stress falls on "the-".

Is off-the-shoulder a common word?

off-the-shoulder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.