Definition of "off-drive" [off-drive]

• In cricket, to strike (a ball), usually a half volley, forcibly, so as to send (it) somewhere on the off-side, in front of point.
• In cricket, a powerful stroke by which an over-pitched ball is hit somewhere on the off-side, in front of point. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Taufeeq plays an awkward off-drive, banging the ball back past Hafeez at the non-striker's end and away to the rope for another boundary."
• "R.E. Foster type -- wrist shots past cover, and an honest off-drive."
• "And, if Doe made a fine off-drive, all the onlookers (and Doe himself) turned and glanced at"