Alternative form of off-the-shelf.

Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet, used widely as construction material and raw material for a multitude of industrial products. It is thicker than foil and thinner than plate.

A disadvantaged or marginalized person who can be "brought back into the fold" with a little effort.

(US) A simple, flat, rectangular cake, often vanilla or sometimes chocolate.

plural of sheet metal

(neuroanatomy) An envelope of myelin that surrounds nerve fibres.

Of money or other assets: protected by a tax shelter.

(economics, finance) A legal structure that reduces tax liability for a person or that person's assets.

An air-raid shelter, a structure designed to give protection against bombs.

An absence of debts or indictments. / (soccer) A game played without having conceded a goal. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clean, sheet.