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on-off

adj
1. (Electrical Engineering) (of an electrical switch, button, etc) having an 'on' position and an 'off' position
2. existing at times and not at others; discontinuous: an on-off relationship.
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Earlier on Friday, Miss Lopez kicked off the celebrations with family and friends, including on-off boyfriend Casper Smart, with a party on a private yacht.
The Last Song costars got engaged in June 2012 and have been in an on-off relationship and are said to have broken up in May 2013, but apparently reconciled one month later.
Prince Charles is to perform the ceremony at RAF Cranwell on Friday but William, 25, has told friends he is keeping Kate, 26, out of the spotlight to give their on-off relationship a chance.
SUPERMODEL Kate Moss is preparing to move to Los Angeles - putting an ocean between herself and on-off boyfriend Pete Doherty.
Hopefully it is a sign that the skipper is feeling mightily relieved that all this on-off transfer nonsense with Chelsea is over for good and he is just concentrating on playing - and enjoying playing - for Liverpool.
The prototypes built so far can power only tiny devices, such as the light-emitting diodes used as on-off indicators in electronic devices.
It was a chilling end to an on-off relationship that began so strongly.
Washington, June 18 (ANI): A team of researchers has suggested a new way to turn graphene into a semiconductor, enabling it to control the flow of electrons with a laser 'on-off switch'.
ANOTHER day, another row for on-off, on-off lovers Sienna Miller and Jude Law.
BABYSHAMBLES frontman Pete Doherty will not be duetting with on-off girlfriend Kate Moss this weekend.'