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get off

VERB
  1. transfer
    The spy sent the classified information off to Russia
  2. cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
    The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife
  3. deliver verbally
    He got off the best line I've heard in a long time
  4. escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
    She gets away with murder!
    I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
  5. be relieved of one's duties temporarily
  6. get out of quickly
    The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car
  7. send via the postal service
    I'll mail you the check tomorrow
  8. enjoy in a sexual way
    He gets off on shoes
  9. leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
  10. alight from (a horse)
  11. get high, stoned, or drugged
    He trips every weekend
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How To Use get off In A Sentence

  • Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
  • I've been in and out of jail and round in circles for years - desperately wanting to get off drugs but finding no way to get off the merry-go-round of smack, stealing and the nick.
  • Few of the studios' prime big-budget offerings these days are reliant on glamorous big-paycheque names. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fine, get off your keister and do something about it.
  • Anyway, I want to get off the subject of fiancées and weddings.
  • Changes that define whether piracy is for profit or not have set a threshold that will allow not-for-profit offenders to get off scot-free, Lee said.
  • It was easy to get off to the centre, for the big pans at the edge would float a far greater weight than a komatik and dogs and three people. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
  • A handful of local people get off the bus, dispersing in different directions.
  • The 10th kind of method is: Will wear the silver on the hand to act the role of get off, brush with cotton cloth black hind use thrush, have the effect of eyebrow pencil, avirulent .
  • World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst has urged youngsters to get off the couch and start taking part in competitive sport.
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