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      [Verb]  | "live off" 


      1: to use (something or someone) as the main source of what one needs to survive (such as money or food)


      Origin: 1609 ;

      [Idiom]  | "live off the land" 


      1: to get food by farming, hunting, etc.

      [Idiom]  | "live off/on the fat of the land" 


      1: to live very well by enjoying the best things that are available without having to work hard to get those things

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       [ "Living Off The Boob" ]

      1: I. Behaving like an infant.

        * e.g.,  ... That Keith guy, he needs to quit living off the boob,and grow up. 


       [ "Living Off The Boob" ]

      2: II. Immature,Childish.


       [ "Living Off The Boob" ]

      3: III. Still living in your mother's house.

       [ "live off love" ]

      1: Living off the kindness of others. To support your needs, food, shelter, ect. So you don't have to get a job.

        * e.g.,  ... He said he's going to "live off love." 

       [ "Living off the land" ]

      1: Surviving on refreshments and foodstuffs from attending various events and meetings, a common practice for engineers at the University of Toronto.

        * e.g.,  ... Yo man, I gotta cook some food tonight, I've been living of the land for too long. 

       [ "live off the land" ]

      1: Formerly referring to there being an adequately-abundant supply of wild food and clean water in a certain area that a human could survive there for extended periods, it nowadays is often a "grim grinds" reference to how wasteful the population in a given area is as a whole, and that a good scrounger could literally find enough edibles and other basic essentials in the neighborhood's dumpsters and waste-piles to sustain himself quite comfortably.

        * e.g.,  ... Visiting dude, accompanying his buddy to help scavenge for discarded returnables in a shopping-mall complex: Zheesh, Dude --- look at all these still-perfectly-edible half-eaten sandwiches and pizza-slices just tossed out in da trash-bins! There's enough here to feed an army! 

       [ "living off a Shaq salary" ]

      1: A high salary for a guy who get's paid for standing around.

        * e.g.,  ... Man#1: "That guy is just standing there in a suit and tie." Man#2: "He sure looks important though, bet he's living off a Shaq salary." Living examples: Bodybuilders Models Shaquille O'Neal Politicians 

       [ "Living off the government tit" ]

      1: Literally, a low life that is able bodied, yet lives off government assistance. I.E. Welfare, WIC, Food Stamps etc. etc. In the film Forrest Gump, Forrest asks Lt. Dan what he's doing now when he sees him for the first time after they arrive home. Lt. Dan, who has lost both legs and is confined to a wheelchair, states, "Living off the government tit." The phrase is a reference to Lt. Dan's receiving a monthly stipen for the loss of his lower limbs. In recent years, the term has a negative connotation and is often used to describe healthy welfare recipients that are able to work but choose not to because they are satisfied with their welfare checks for doing nothing.

        * e.g.,  ... The people living off the government tit are the largest voter pool for the democratic party. Living off the government tit is free ride for people who realize government cheese is preferable to gainful employment. 

       [ "living off teh rez" ]

      1: To be dry of Cannabis and scraping the pipe.

        * e.g.,  ... sad-face, been dry since Turds-day, living off teh rez atm. 

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