square off
verb- Hey, man, don't square off on me with some bullshit.1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), Paramount Pictures:
- When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. [title]2019 October 18, Thomas Meaney, “When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr.”, in New York Times:
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To increase the boxiness of (a design).
Industrial design
- After the aeronautically inspired curvaceous designs of the 1930s and 1940s, many American automotive designs of the 1950s through 1970s were somewhat more squared off.