get off on

verb — 2 senses

get off on

verb
1

Slang To be excited or aroused by; to derive pleasure from.

  • I don't get off on champagne.
  • Now's the chance to get off on your new math tricks: twelve times eight is the same as ten times eight plus two times eight... eighty plus sixteen: ninety-six!1973, “Figure Eight”, in Bob Dorough (music), Multiplication Rock, performed by Schoolhouse Rock!/Blossom Dearie:
1 more example
  • I wasn’t getting off on the sex as much as I was getting off on being romantically inaccessible for the first time in my life.2026 June 12, Emily Ratajkowski, “Mother F*cker”, in The Cut:
2

US, Dated, Slang To fight (somebody); to win a fight against (someone); to insult or provoke (someone) to a fight.

Synonyms
get a charge out of
Related terms
get off, get on

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