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Get Off

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Verb

1. get off

leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.

2. get off

be relieved of one's duties temporarily

3. get off, send, send off

transfer

Example Sentences:
'The spy sent the classified information off to Russia'

4. get off

cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case

Example Sentences:
'The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife'

5. escape, get away, get by, get off, get out

escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

Example Sentences:
'She gets away with murder!'
'I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities'

6. get off

enjoy in a sexual way

Example Sentences:
'He gets off on shoes'

7. dismount, get down, get off, light, unhorse

alight from (a horse)

8. get off, hop out

get out of quickly

Example Sentences:
'The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car'

9. get off, mail

send via the postal service

Example Sentences:
'I'll mail you the check tomorrow'

10. get off, trip, trip out, turn on

get high, stoned, or drugged

Example Sentences:
'He trips every weekend'

11. get off

deliver verbally

Example Sentences:
'He got off the best line I've heard in a long time'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Get Off

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verb
1. (intr, adverb)
to escape the consequences of an action
he got off very lightly in the accident
2. (adverb)
to be or cause to be acquitted
a good lawyer got him off
3. (adverb)
to depart or cause to depart
to get the children off to school
4. (intransitive)
to descend (from a bus, train, etc); dismount
she got off at the terminus
5. 
to move or cause to move to a distance (from)
get off the field
6. (tr, adverb)
to remove; take off
get your coat off
7. (adverb)
to go or send to sleep
8. (adverb)
to send (letters) or (of letters) to be sent
9. (intr, adverb) slang
to become high on or as on heroin or some other drug
10.  get off with
11.  tell someone where to get off

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Get Off

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1. 
to come off, down, or out of
2. 
to leave; go away
3. 
to take off
4. 
to escape
5. 
a. 
to help escape sentence or punishment
b. 
to lessen the sentence or punishment of
6. 
to start, as in a race
7.  US
to utter (a joke, retort, etc.)
8. 
to have a holiday; have time off
9.  Slang
to experience euphoria, an orgasm, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Get Off

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v. got(gŏt), got·ten(gŏtn) or got , get·ting, gets
v. tr.
1.
a. To come into possession or use of; receive: got a cat for her birthday.
b. To meet with or incur: got nothing but trouble for her efforts.
2.
a. To go after and obtain: got a book at the library; got breakfast in town.
b. To go after and bring: Get me a pillow.
c. To purchase; buy: get groceries.
3.
a. To acquire as a result of action or effort: He got his information from the internet. You can't get water out of a stone.
b. To earn: got high marks in math.
c. To accomplish or attain as a result of military action.
4. To obtain by concession or request: couldn't get the time off; got permission to go.
5.
a. To arrive at; reach: When did you get home?
b. To reach and board; catch: She got her plane two minutes before takeoff.
6. To succeed in communicating with, as by telephone: can't get me at the office until nine.
7. To become affected with (an illness, for example) by infection or exposure; catch: get the flu; got the mumps.
8.
a. To be subjected to; undergo: got a severe concussion.
b. To receive as retribution or punishment: got six years in prison for tax fraud.
c. To sustain a specified injury to: got my arm broken.
9.
a. To perceive or become aware of by one of the senses: get a whiff of perfume; got a look at the schedule.
b. To gain or have understanding of: Do you get this question?
c. To learn (a poem, for example) by heart; memorize.
d. To find or reach by calculating: get a total; can't get the answer.
10. To procreate; beget: “Is my life given me for nothing but to get children and work to bring them up?” (D.H. Lawrence).
11.
a. To cause to become or be in a specified state or condition: got the children tired and cross; got the shirt clean.
b. To make ready; prepare: get lunch for the family.
c. To cause to come or go: got the car through traffic.
d. To cause to move or leave: Get me out of here!
12. To cause to undertake or perform; prevail on: got the guide to give us the complete tour.
13.
a. To take, especially by force; seize: The detective got the suspect as he left the restaurant.
b. Informal To overcome or destroy: The ice storm got the rose bushes.
c. To evoke an emotional response or reaction in: Romantic music really gets me.
d. To annoy or irritate: What got me was his utter lack of initiative.
e. To present a difficult problem to; puzzle: “It's the suspect's indifference that gets me,” the detective said.
f. To take revenge on, especially to kill in revenge for a wrong.
g. Informal To hit or strike: She got him on the chin. The bullet got him in the arm.
14. Baseball To put out or strike out: got the batter with a cut fastball.
15. To begin or start. Used with the present participle: I have to get working on this or I'll miss my deadline.
16.
a. To have current possession of. Used in the present perfect form with the meaning of the present: We've got plenty of cash.
b. Nonstandard To have current possession of. Used in the past tense form with the meaning of the present: They got a nice house in town.
c. To have as an obligation. Used in the present perfect form with the meaning of the present: I have got to leave early. You've got to do the dishes.
d. Nonstandard To have as an obligation. Used in the past tense with the meaning of the present: They got to clean up this mess.
v. intr.
1.
a. To become or grow to be: eventually got well.
b. To be successful in coming or going: When will we get to Dallas?
2. To be able or permitted: never got to see Europe; finally got to work at home.
3.
a. To be successful in becoming: get free of a drug problem.
b. Used with the past participle of transitive verbs as a passive voice auxiliary: got stung by a bee.
c. To become drawn in, entangled, or involved: got into debt; get into a hassle.
4. Informal To depart immediately: yelled at the dog to get.
5. To work for gain or profit; make money: Do you feel as though you're exhausting yourself getting and not making enough for spending?
n.
1. Progeny; offspring: a thoroughbred's get.
2. Chiefly British Slang git2.
3. Sports A return, as in tennis, on a shot that seems impossible to reach.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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