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Definition of Pop off
1. Verb. Leave quickly.
2. Verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
Specialized synonyms: Abort, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate, Buy It, Pip Out, Drown, Predecease, Famish, Starve, Fall, Succumb, Yield
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Break, Break Down, Conk Out, Die, Fail, Give Out, Give Way, Go, Go Bad, Die
Derivative terms: Decease, Decedent, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Exit, Expiration, Going, Passing
Antonyms: Be Born
Also: Die Down, Die Down, Die Off, Die Out
Definition of Pop off
1. Verb. (intransitive informal) To leave, and return in a short time ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive informal) To die suddenly. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive informal) To kill someone. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive informal) To speak frankly; usually to someone else's disdain (i.e. '''popping off''' at the mouth). ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive informal) To release flatulence, in most cases, in short rapid succession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pop Off
Literary usage of Pop off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... with little or no warning ; TO pop off WITH = to put off (or aside) ; TO POP
... TO pop off = (i) to die (also TO pop off the hooks—see POP and HOOK), ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"pop off the hooks, to (popular), to die. He stirr'd not,—he spoke not,—he none
of them ... pop off, to (common), to die. But should I be popped off, you, ..."
3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"oa to burn off; to fire, il ischarge; to pop off (a pistol, Ac,); — bringen, ...
(она-, fein) l. to burst, crack or pop off; 2. fig. wig. to burst, ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"A. Well, when the pressure gets to a certain point, the safety valve will pop off.
The engineer testifies that he had a train of twenty-five cars, ..."
5. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1905)
"I mid very well pop off in the night, though,' re joined-Fanner Hounsell ...
E-es, I mid pop off,' he repeated, ' an' then things 'ud be all at sixes and ..."
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