get off
intj1
Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
- "And you're the only person in the country who can do it." "Get off," she said skeptically.2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 140:
get off
verb39 senses
- 1To move from being on top of (something) to not being on…
- 2To move (something) from being on top of (something…
- 3To move from being on top of (something) to not being on…
- 4To stop touching or physically interfering with…
- 5To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering…
- 6To thoroughly remove.
- 7To disembark, especially from mass transportation such…
- 8To depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- 9To leave an island.
- 10To dismount or climb down from (something).
- 11To make or help someone be ready to leave a place…
- 12To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip).
- 13To leave one's job, school or another commitment, as…
- 14To leave work consistently at a designated time.
- 15To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
- 16To leave a project or assignment.
- 17To stop following, harassing or nitpicking (someone).
- 18To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone…
- 19To stop partaking or participating (in a course of…
- 20To quit using a drug.
- 21To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive…
- 22To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences…
- 23To steal (something) successfully.
- 24To acquire (something) from (someone or something).
- 25To send (something); to discharge (a communication).
- 26To receive data, a message, etc.
- 27To make (someone) fall asleep.
- 28To fall asleep.
- 29To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as…
- 30To experience great pleasure, especially sexual…
- 31To masturbate; to achieve sexual satisfaction through…
- 32To kiss; to flirt successfully; to hook up or make out…
- 33To get high (on a drug); to get (someone) high on a drug.
- 34To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude…
- 35To achieve (a goal); to successfully perform.
- 36To perform a musical solo; to play music well.
- 37To fart, burp, etc.
- 38To utter.
- 39Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off.
1
To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- Get off your chair and help me.
- Get off! You're crushing me!
2
To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
- Get your butt off your chair and help me.
- Could you please get the book off the top shelf for me?
3
To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- Get off! You're crushing me!
4
To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
- Don't tickle me – get off!
- You need to get off your sister if you want dessert tonight.
5
To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with something else.
- I can't wait to get these clothes off.
- You have to get your hat off your head.
1 more example
- "And I'm going! Period." Puckering her lips, she made an ear-splitting whistle, clapped her hands and shouted, "Pluto! Max treat!" […] Max felt something tug on his pant leg. It was Pluto. "Jane! Get your dog off me!"1991, Lydia Lee, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Silhouette, →ISBN:
6
To thoroughly remove.
- I got the paint off the wall.
› To depart from a location, route or conveyance.
7
To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus, ship or train.
- You get off the train at the third stop.
- The heavens opened just as I got off the bus.
1 more example
- WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:
8
To depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- Let's get off the interstate at exit 70. No, let's get off at the very next exit.
- When we reach the next stop, we'll get off.
9
To leave an island.
- We'll catch a flight to get off Long Island.
10
To dismount or climb down from (something).
- Get off the tractor, sir!
11
To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- "I get up and get the kids off. I do everything normal mothers do. I just do it in less time."2010, Peter Lovenheim, In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, Penguin, →ISBN:
- "I think we should get off, Enid. It is nearly seven," said he.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- “I've been out for a walk around. The rain's blown over. We'll be able to get off right after breakfast.”2016, D. G. Compton, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 155:
1 more example
- 'I'm beginning to feel like London again. I wish we could get off right after breakfast.'2017, Jane Gardam, Faith Fox, Europa Editions, →ISBN:
› To leave from a job or stop an experience.
13
To leave one's job, school or another commitment, as scheduled or with permission.
- If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home.
14
To leave work consistently at a designated time.
- I get off at four, as always.
15
To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
- She managed to get a week off in March to go to Paris.
16
To leave a project or assignment.
- I'm hoping to get off the Henderson project.
17
To stop following, harassing or nitpicking (someone).
- You need to get off my ass!
18
To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
- Can you get off the phone, please? I need to use it urgently.
19
Slang To stop partaking or participating (in a course of action, habit or activity).
- You need to get off the candy.
- I'll get off this low-carb diet.
20
Slang To quit using a drug.
- I need to get off heroin.
› To avoid consequences or assist in the…
21
To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
- The vandal got off easy, with only a fine.
- You got off lightly by not being kept in detention for breaking that window.
4 more examples
- "But I find you have been there after all," said the man, "and now you shall lose your life." The lad cried and begged for himself till he got off with his life; but he got a good thrashing.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 216:
- He was allowed to rise with a warning that if he played any tricks he would not get off so lightly the second time.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- Then he was charged with killing some sheep and a steer on the run, and converting them to his own use, but got off mainly because there was a difference of opinion between the squatter and the other local J.P. concerning politics ...1962, Henry Lawson, Prose Works:
- My parents were killed, but I got off with only a broken arm and a broken leg.2000, Morris Philipson, A Man in Charge: A Novel, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 174:
22
To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- She could've faced jail time, but her talented lawyer got her off with only a fine.
› To transmit or receive (something).
24
To acquire (something) from (someone or something).
- Go get a cup of sugar off Missus Haggerty next door.
- Well I'll have to get a form off Rosemary Boyle to get money out your bank.2001, Jonathan Harvey, Out In The Open, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, →ISBN:
2 more examples
- They said if they sent a form to me it would take about ten days, but if I could get a form off the Internet, I would greatly speed up the process.2017, Barbara Robey Egloff Shackett, Stranded in Montana; Dumped in Arizona, Dorrance Publishing, page 202
- I'll get her to come and get a script off you in, say, a fortnight? And then I want you on all the shoots with me and Kate and that gothic tosspot who's presenting. You never know when it might need a rewrite, or he might need a kick up the arse, ...2019, Christopher Beanland, The Wall in the Head, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN:
25
To send (something); to discharge (a communication).
- She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning.
- I got the email off before the deadline.
26
To receive data, a message, etc.
- We're getting a signal off the satellite dish.
- I'll get today's lunch off the menu.
1 more example
- They got the code off me.
› To cause or act as to cause an emotion…
27
UK To make (someone) fall asleep.
- He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning.
28
UK To fall asleep.
- If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again.
29
Slang To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- I know how to get her off.
- This woman hadn't had an orgasm in maybe 10 years. It took me three hours to get her off.1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):
4 more examples
- What? You don't think I know how to get myself off? Hell, that's what half of band camp is. Sex Ed.1999, Adam Herz, American Pie (motion picture), spoken by Michelle (Alyson Hannigan):
- It was Need. Her Need took her half in sleep onto her pillow and with her own hand got her off.2011, Kirsten Kaschock, Sleight: A Novel, Coffee House Press, →ISBN:
- Her husband's tongue was fast and ingenious, mastered at teasing her clit with rapid, fluttering flicks, and he knew how much pressure she liked from years of getting her off.2015, Cara McKenna, Crosstown Crush: A Sins In the City Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
- What'd she do to get you off? (Uh-huh) Taking down her hair like, oh, my God Taking off your shirt, I did that once Or twice, uh2024, Gracie Abrams, Audrey Hobert, “That's So True”, in The Secret of Us, performed by Gracie Abrams:
30
Slang To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm; to get off on (something).
- It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off.
- I knew, because both Alison and Penny had taught me, that busting up with someone could be miserable, but I didn't know that getting off with someone could be miserable too.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 19:
2 more examples
- For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, page 47:
- Out of spite, Pharaoh cuts straw supplies and Jewish labourers have to make bricks without straw, the same target rates of productivity as before, but with no straw – virtually impossible. Pharaoh gets off on their exhaustion:2009, Rob Lacey, word on the street, eBook, Zondervan, →ISBN:
31
Slang To masturbate; to achieve sexual satisfaction through masturbation.
- I hadn't gotten myself off in weeks.
- I'd like to get off with him after the party.
33
Slang To get high (on a drug); to get (someone) high on a drug.
- I really get off with cocaine.
- That drug dealer's heroin really gets the addicts off.
3 more examples
- The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims, page 43:
- Each person has a more outrageous story than the previous teller. […] "The first time I got off on cocaine, man, it was just too fine."1985, Joanne Baum, One step over the line: a no-nonsense guide to recognizing and treating cocaine dependency, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
- Fear is biochemically similar to someone "getting off" on cocaine.1989, Cardwell C. Nuckols, Cocaine: From Dependency to Recovery, →ISBN, page 2:
34
Especially, In an interrogative sentence To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
- Where do you get off talking to me like that?
- in a word: he’s almost nobody, but his head’s filled with freedom, omniscience, transcendence beyond his foolish flesh, just where does he get off!1981, Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, “A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope”, translating Wisława Szymborska, “Sto Pociech” in Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wisława Szymborska
› To succeed in an act; to perform an action.
35
Dated To achieve (a goal); to successfully perform.
- We'll get the concert off, I'm sure.
- "If they get off their stunt I don't suppose they care a tinker's curse what is truth or what is not."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
37
To fart, burp, etc.
- I felt better after I got a fart off.
38
Dated To utter.
- I'm hoping to get off a joke during the dinner party.
- He got a series of insults off before I could come up with a single retort.
2 more examples
- I heard Nelson Algren on the Chez Show, a radio program emanating from the Sapphire Bar of the Chez Paree—you see I've sunk to the lower depths—and he got off a line about Hollywood being a con man's paradise, which wasn't a very ...1942-1963, J. F. Powers, quoted in 2013, Katherine A. Powers, Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963, Macmillan, page 155
- When Quayle looked silly by saying he would be a "pit bull" in the 1992 campaign, David Letterman got off a line about it ("For Halloween, he's going to be a Ninja Turtle"), but the general reaction was curiously tame.1991, Newsweek:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off.
- Synonyms
- get down, stop, desist, refrain, leave alone, let alone, alight, disembark from, leave, detrain, debus, deplane, drop off, cop off
- Derived terms
- get off on, get off with, tell someone where to get off