OWI

See also: owi

English

Noun

OWI (plural OWIs)

1. Initialism of operating (a motor vehicle) while impaired/intoxicated.

Coordinate terms

(operating while):

• drink and drive
• drink-driver
• drink-driving
• drunk driver
• drunk driving
• impaired driving

Related terms

operating while

• DUI
• DWB
• DWI
• OVI

 

Proper noun

OWI

1. (US, World War II) Initialism of Office of War Information.
   • 2003, Kathleen E. R. Smith, God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 81:

     From its inception the OWI framed directives that offered guidelines for songwriters to aid them in the composition of “proper” war songs, and, in the public press, the OWI rebuked Tin Pan Alley for its uninterrupted production of “nostalgic” hit songs.

Anagrams

• IOW, Woi