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Knock off   /nɑk ɔf/   Listen
noun
knock off  n.  A device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.


verb
knock off  v. i. & v. t.  
1.
To quit (working).
2.
To accomplish; frequently used when the task is accomplished rapidly.
3.
To kill; to defeat (opponents). (Colloq.)
4.
To discount, to deduct (a sum from a price).
5.
To rob.
Synonyms: knock over.
6.
To make a knockoff of; to copy or imitate, usually without permission or admission of copying.





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"Knock off" Quotes from Famous Books



... splinter of the broken wood between his finger and thumb, and did not immediately reply. At last he said thoughtfully: "Want to get out? Why, no. I rather think I want to get in." And he dived into the darkness under the wooden floor so abruptly as to knock off his big curved clerical hat and leave it lying on the boards above, without any clerical ...
— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... all our watering-places is the horse-racing business. We all admire the horse. There needs to be a redistribution of coronets among the brute creation. For ages the lion has been called the king of beasts. I knock off its coronet and put the crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape or spirit or sagacity or intelligence or affection or usefulness. He is semi-human, and knows how to reason on a small scale. The centaur of olden ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage
... for a while on this orbit so you boys can get the feel of the ship and of space." The Solar Guard officer took Tom's place in the command pilot's chair. "You knock off for a while. Go up to the radar bridge and have a look around. ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell
... the infinite are on equal terms, worthy to gaze on one another, each from his own throne. But where many men are, how small both humanity and infinitude become, how much they have to knock off each other, in order to fit in together! Each soul wants so much room to expand that in a crowd it needs must wait for gaps through which to thrust a little craning piece of a head from time ...
— Glimpses of Bengal • Sir Rabindranath Tagore
... shall you do? Pretty stiff sum; get a pretty lot of victuals for the million; several suits of clothes for the L103,000. Should you, just to show your independence, knock off the odd L200? No. Barks likes the thing done generously. Why throw in a note of discord? Besides, it doesn't all come out of your pocket. So you say "Aye;" GEORGIE HAMILTON nods in grateful appreciation; COURTNEY seems relieved; the thing's done, and you walk out with a glowing ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 • Various


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