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Get off   /gɛt ɔf/   Listen
Get off

verb
1.
Leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc..
2.
Be relieved of one's duties temporarily.
3.
Transfer.  Synonyms: send, send off.
4.
Cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case.
5.
Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.  Synonyms: escape, get away, get by, get out.  "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
6.
Enjoy in a sexual way.
7.
Alight from (a horse).  Synonyms: dismount, get down, light, unhorse.
8.
Get out of quickly.  Synonym: hop out.
9.
Send via the postal service.  Synonym: mail.
10.
Get high, stoned, or drugged.  Synonyms: trip, trip out, turn on.
11.
Deliver verbally.



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"Get off" Quotes from Famous Books



... neither hand nor foot: "You're an older man than I am, Abe," he replied, without even looking up. "I can take words from you, I'd hate to take from anybody else—you know that; and you know why. You won't talk; all right. Now I'll tell you where you get off; you're not going down to the timber—not a blamed step," he added deliberately. "Finger your six-shooter as much as you like." Laramie waved his hand with his words. "Use it on me if you like. But, by ——, Abe——" ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

... us huddled about the companion-way. "I meant to get off without waking you. We made too much noise. I suppose. Smart breeze this. Make ten knots on it, easy. Could put you to the north pole in fifteen days with such a capful,—if there were no ice ...
— Left on Labrador - or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' • Charles Asbury Stephens

... can," returned Maisie Talbot. "Why can't you be hanging up some of those skirts, instead of sitting staring at me? Yes, this is a whole box of Edinburgh rock, but you shan't have a single piece, any of you, unless you get off my bed ...
— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil

... to get off! My Good-byes were hurried when once the brown envelope had come. I saw him on the hospital stoep (baraza, did they call it in that alien part of Africa?) just as I was rushing down to the station. He had lost his blue color, but ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... you didn't," he retorted. "There was a husky nigger at the outside entrance of the passage, and he gave me the fight of my life. Get off this track; they might be ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer


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