OTC

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

OTC

1. Initialism of over-the-counter.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:

     The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules […]

   • 2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):8:

     By adopting complementary products used in biotech, over-the-counter (OTC), nutritional, cosmetic, or other fine chemical consumers, their cost basis is further diluted to help maintain competitiveness.

2. (slang) Initialism of off the charts.

Noun

OTC (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Initialism of Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.

Proper noun

OTC

1. (military) Initialism of Officers Training Corps (part of the British Army)
2. Initialism of Overseas Telecommunications Commission (defunct department of the Australian government)

Prepositional phrase

OTC

1. (slang, Internet, text messaging) Initialism of on the cheek.

Anagrams

• CTO, OCT, Oct, Oct., TCO, TOC, cot, oct, oct-