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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



... them coming, it said to its master: 'Your father-in-law is coming to meet you; that is he in the middle, wearing a mantle of sky-blue. Get off your horse and go ...
— The Violet Fairy Book • Various
... as the "Defence," the "Marlborough," the "Royal George," the "Queen," the "Brunswick," and the "Nott," were enabled thus to engage the enemy; but the far greater part of them engaged their adversaries to windward, thus enabling the French, when defeated, to get off before the wind. Howe's own ship engaged that of Villaret Joyeuse, the French admiral; and these two opened their fire a little after nine o'clock, and at nearly the same time the action became general in the centre. Villaret Joyeuse's ship mounted 120 guns, and it was so lofty ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... what he wanted here; we have been on his track for days; he committed a forgery, months ago, and was trying to get off to Europe just as it was ...
— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens
... us with copious bowls of milk; the most refreshing thing, after all, that can be drank in the heat of the day. We were, however, impatient to get off, but had to wait for a blacksmith to shoe the horses of our chaouch. The only knowing man in this department was away at some neighbouring village, and it was necessary to send messengers to find him. There being ...
— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 • James Richardson
... get off a pony, young man," laughed the foreman. "I hope you won't dismount in that fashion around the cattle at night. If you do, you ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains • Frank Gee Patchin


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