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off-glide definition

off·-glide (ôf′glīd′)

noun

a glide coming immediately after a speech sound, in which the vocal organs resume their normal inactive position or take the position for articulating a following sound

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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