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Definition of Get off

1. Verb. Leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc..

2. Verb. Be relieved of one's duties temporarily.

3. Verb. Transfer. "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"

4. Verb. Cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case. "The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife"

5. Verb. Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action. "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"

6. Verb. Enjoy in a sexual way. "He gets off on shoes"

7. Verb. Alight from (a horse).

8. Verb. Get out of quickly. "The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car"

9. Verb. Send via the postal service. "I'll mail you the check tomorrow"

10. Verb. Get high, stoned, or drugged. "He trips every weekend"

11. Verb. Deliver verbally. "He got off the best line I've heard in a long time"

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Off

get down get dressed get even get going get hitched with get hold get hold of get in get into get in touch

get it get it on get laid get married get moving get off (current term) get off the ground get on get one's lumps get onto

get on with get out get over get rid of get rolling get started get stranded get stuck get the best get the better of

Literary usage of Get off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (1874)
"CHAPTER X. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO get off WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOES. EVERYBODY knows that the great reversed triangle of land, ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"... has not been able to get off to-day. Ho expecte to start at ten AM to-morrow. I will telegraph when he leaves. ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The plaintiff testified:' "I thought it had stopped for me to get off. ... And again: "They had been In the habit of stopping for people to get off right ..."

4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
""I turned to look at him and he said, 'I get off at the next stop. Will you get off with me and have a cup of coffee? I've been riding next to you on the ..."

5. Publications by Scotland Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1854)
"read by the 22d, when I expect to get off. You must be conscious that I have spared you to the very last moment, and that my necessity is now extreme. ..."

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