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base off of

base off of verb: to base on.

Verb

base off of (third-person singular simple present bases off of, present participle basing off of, simple past and past participle based off of)

  1. (US, ditransitive, informal) To base on.
    • A lot of artists put skits in their records, but they based it off of De La Soul. We didn't base ours off of De La Soul, we based ours off of ours, because we were the first group to actually split up a rap album and not go cut for cut.2006, Chuck D, Yusuf Jah, Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, volume 1
    • They wanted something like a '70s thriller, so I based it off of The Man with the Golden Gun poster.2015, Eric Nolen-Weathington, Modern Masters Volume 30: Paolo Rivera, page 40

Forms of base off of

third-person singular presentbases off of
present participlebasing off of
past participlebased off of
pastbased off of

Questions about base off of

What does base off of mean?
Base off of means to base on.
What part of speech is base off of?
Base off of is a verb.
What is the past tense of base off of?
The past tense of base off of is based off of.

Words near base off of in the dictionary

  1. base name
  2. base names
  3. base note
  4. base notes
  5. base off
  6. base off of
  7. base on
  8. base on balls
  9. base over apex
  10. base page
  11. base pair

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