base off of
Base off of is an American informal verbal construction meaning to use something as a foundation or reference point — to base something on something else.
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Base off of is an American informal verbal construction meaning to use something as a foundation or reference point — to base something on something else. The doubled preposition ('off of' instead of standard 'on') is a casualism widely used in informal American English and frequently stigmatised by prescriptivists. It appears naturally in everyday speech and informal writing, particularly among younger speakers, though edited prose typically substitutes the simpler 'base on.'
The whole campaign was based off of research they had done two years earlier, and some of it was already outdated.
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(ditransitive, US, informal) To base on.
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Founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
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(Internet slang) The quality of being based .
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(baseball, transitive) After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base (a runner) was on at the time of the pitch, thereby causing them to be out for failure to tag up.
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When someone attempts to be based — authentic, fearless, unapologetic — but fumbles it so thoroughly that the attempt itself becomes the joke. A based fail happens when the independence reads as ignorance, the hot take turns out to be simply wrong, or the refusal to care about optics results in an outcome that clearly required caring about optics. It's the gap between the aspiration to based energy and the reality of what came out. Documented and shared lovingly by witnesses.