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do off

do off verb: to take off (clothing).

Verb

do off (third-person singular simple present does off, present participle doing off, simple past did off, past participle done off)

  1. (obsolete) To take off (clothing).
    • Than seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I requyre you, do of your helmys, that I may se you.’1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X
    • So she laughed, and did off her other raiment, and slid swiftly into the water, that embraced her body in all its fresh kindness […]1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  2. (slang) To kill, to bump off

Forms of do off

third-person singular presentdoes off
present participledoing off
pastdid off
past participledone off
alternative formdo of
alternative formdoff

Questions about do off

What does do off mean?
Do off means to take off (clothing).
What part of speech is do off?
Do off is a verb.
What is the past tense of do off?
The past tense of do off is did off.

Words near do off in the dictionary

  1. do nothing
  2. do number one
  3. do number two
  4. do numbers
  5. do of
  6. do off
  7. do one
  8. do one's best
  9. do one's bit
  10. do one's block
  11. do one's business

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