get off
verb
- To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
"Get off your chair and help me."
- To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
"Could you please get the book off the top shelf for me?"
- To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
"Don't tickle me – get off!"
- To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
- 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."
- To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; 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."
- To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- (possibly obsolete) To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip).
- To leave one's job as scheduled or with permission.
"If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home."
- 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."
- To acquire (something) from (someone).
- 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."
- 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 (write and) send (something); to discharge.
"She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning."
- To utter.
"to get off a joke"
- To make (someone) fall asleep.
"He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning."
- To fall asleep.
"If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again."
- To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
"It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off."
- To kiss; to smooch.
"I'd like to get off with him after the party."
- To get high (on a drug).
- (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?"
- Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
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