dash off

verb — 2 senses

dash off

verb
1

To leave a place quickly or briefly.

  • I have to dash off to the store, but I'll be back soon.
2

Idiomatic To write quickly or informally.

  • Let me dash off a quick note.
  • In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the "Dee" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 139:

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