get%20off

verb

1. 1

   To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.

   “Get off your chair and help me.”

2. 2

   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?”

3. 3

   To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.

   “Don't tickle me – get off!”

4. 4

   To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).

5. 5

   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.”

6. 6

   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.”

7. 7

   To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).

8. 8

   (possibly obsolete) To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip).

9. 9

   To leave one's job as scheduled or with permission.

   “If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home.”

10. 10

    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.”

11. 11

    To acquire (something) from (someone).

12. 12

    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.”

13. 13

    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.”

14. 14

    To (write and) send (something); to discharge.

    “She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning.”

15. 15

    To utter.

    “to get off a joke”

16. 16

    To make (someone) fall asleep.

    “He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning.”

17. 17

    To fall asleep.

    “If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again.”

18. 18

    To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.

19. 19

    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.”

20. 20

    To kiss; to smooch.

    “I'd like to get off with him after the party.”

21. 21

    To get high (on a drug).

22. 22

    (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?”

23. 23

    Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.