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Get off

verb

Leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc..

Be relieved of one's duties temporarily.

Transfer. Synonyms: send, send off.

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

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action. Synonyms: escape, get away, get by, get out. "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"

Enjoy in a sexual way.

Alight from (a horse). Synonyms: dismount, get down, light, unhorse.

Get out of quickly. Synonym: hop out.

Send via the postal service. Synonym: mail.

10.

Get high, stoned, or drugged. Synonyms: trip, trip out, turn on.

11.

Deliver verbally.

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"Get off" Quotes from Famous Books

... it without the slightest quibble. The Laird would be delighted to get off so cheaply. He feels himself obligated to you ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... get off. To stay seemed sure death. Dumb with fright, for a moment he stood in speechless terror. Then there rang across the wild, black river and through the quiet streets of the village, such a yell of abject fear as only a lusty lad of that age can give. It was ...

— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various

... just opening my mouth to get off a witticism about who took the shoes, when Holmes, observing me, gave me a warning kick under the table, so ...

— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry

... thing for her to do. So she excused herself to Herr Sesemann with her usual flow of words; to-day and to-morrow it would be quite impossible for her to take the journey, and there was so much to do that she doubted if she could get off on any of the following days. Herr Sesemann understood that she was unwilling to go at all, and so dismissed her. Then he sent for Sebastian and told him to make ready to start: he was to travel with the child as far as Basle that day, and the next day take her home. He would give him a ...

— Heidi • Johanna Spyri

... I had one of the most difficult tasks to perform that were ever laid upon me. I had wanted to get off the Cobden Club dinner fixed for that day; but, Lesseps having come over as a flaming Arabist for the express purpose of making a ferocious Arabi speech at this banquet, I had to go in order to propose his health, to sit next him at the dinner, to frighten him out of making his speech, and ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

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