hit off

verb — 3 senses

hit off

verb
1

Golf, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To play the first shot off the fairway.

  • I hit off and drove a beauty 230 metres down the middle[.]1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 124:
2

Dated To describe with quick characteristic strokes.

  • to hit off a speaker
  • c. 1652-1654, Dorothy Osborne, letter to William Temple Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life?
3

To give; to hand over.

African-American Vernacular

Related terms
hit it off

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