Oi

/ɔɪ/ · interjection

Meaning

Said to get someone's attention; hey..

Definitions by Sense

1. Said to get someone's attention; hey.
2. An expression of surprise.
3. An informal greeting, similar to hi.
4. (countable) An exclamation of 'oi'.
5. (UK, uncountable, sometimes capitalized) A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
6. Alternative spelling of oy.
7. Eye dialect of I

Example Sentences

Oi, you with the red hat – what do you think you're doing?

Oi! Stop that!

Oi! This is new!

Oi! How's it going?

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 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.

Why, where be oi, and what be oi a doin’, / A sleepin’ out, just when the dews du rise?

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• ois

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