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OWI en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of operating (a motor vehicle) while impaired/intoxicated.
    alt of operating

Forms

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OWIs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

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

Relateds

DWI (operating while) · DWB (operating while) · OVI (operating while) · DUI (operating while)

Source: en.wiktionary, “OWI” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

OWI en · PROPN

Meanings

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