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based off of

based off of is the simple past and past participle of base off of.

Meaning of base off of

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

Questions about based off of

What is based off of the simple past and past participle of?
Based off of is the simple past and past participle of base off of.

Words near based off of in the dictionary

  1. basecoats
  2. basecourt
  3. basecourts
  4. based
  5. based off
  6. based off of
  7. based on
  8. based upon
  9. basedness
  10. Basedow
  11. Basedow's disease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: based off of (page history and authors); base off of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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