I've seen a lot of people using "having mid off" on twitter and some other app, don't know what it's mean
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3I suspect it's recently coined slang - Urban Dictionary: mid off– KillingTimeSep 15, 2022 at 11:46
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@KillingTime now I get it, thanks– KojiamaSep 15, 2022 at 12:04
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2Used to insult or degrade an opposing opinion, labeling it as average or poor quality. Examples: We waited on that album for 6 months but it was mid! Get a mid mug for your Uncle Paul. From which I conclude that this (previously unknown to me) usage doesn't necessarily include either the hyphen or the word off. Plus I assume it's derived from the cricket fielding position, so it would probably never gain much currency (since the worlds primary Anglophones - Americans - don't do cricket anyway! :)– FumbleFingersSep 15, 2022 at 14:49
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4It has been proposed that this question be closed on the ground that the OP hasn't done sufficient preliminary research. Given that the usage is so new, it is, however, not clear what research the OP could have done.– jsw29Sep 15, 2022 at 16:42
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4Mid off is, if I recall correctly, a cricket fielding position. There is also a mid on and a silly mid off.– John LawlerSep 15, 2022 at 17:29
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The suffix "-off" is often used to generate a term that means a contest or competition, with the stem describing the quality or activity that the participants are being compared on. For instance a "cook-off" or "dance-off".
In this case, "mid" means in the middle (as in "mid-September"), and has a slang use to mean "mediocre".
The tweet is sarcastically saying that neither of the women is particularly exceptional, they're figuratively competing to see who can be more mediocre. The contained tweet seems to be one of the girls ("me" on the left) claiming to be better than the other ("you" on the right).
