The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules[…] 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:
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. 2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):8:
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of order-to-cash.
I don't have a OTP but Snape is my OTC. I've only written one HP fic without him. 2023 June 16, Web_singer, Reddit:
Lucina is actually still my otc (one true character) at heart. 2016 February 17, Memo[Guillermo] (@HitoBitoSSB), Twitter:
Lately it seems like most ships are less like OTPs or OT3+ where shippers are equally invested in the mutual dynamic of all characters involved but instead are like how can my OTC (One True Character) have their every whim catered to, every physical/emotional be taken care and being ravished on the daily by their hot love interest(s) who don’t have any needs of their own beyond needing to love the OTC. 2026 January 30, Suitable-Self, Reddit:
(Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism) Initialism of Overseas Telecommunications Commission, a defunct department of the Australian government.