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get off

get off verb: to move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.

Verb

get off (third-person singular simple present gets off, present participle getting off, simple past got off, past participle (UK) got off or (US) gotten off)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
    • Get off your chair and help me.
    • Get off! You're crushing me!
    1. (intransitive, transitive) To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
      • Get your butt off your chair and help me.
      • Could you please get the book off the top shelf for me?
    2. (intransitive, transitive) To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
      • Get off! You're crushing me!
    3. (intransitive, transitive) To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
      • Don't tickle me – get off!
      • You need to get off your sister if you want dessert tonight.
    4. (ditransitive, intransitive, transitive) To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with something else.
      • I can't wait to get these clothes off.
      • You have to get your hat off your head.
    5. (ditransitive, intransitive, transitive) To thoroughly remove.
      • I got the paint off the wall.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus, ship or train.
    • You get off the train at the third stop.
    • The heavens opened just as I got off the bus.
    Synonyms:
    alight, disembark from, leave, detrain, debus, deplane
  3. (transitive) 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.
    • When we reach the next stop, we'll get off.
  4. (transitive) To leave an island.
    • We'll catch a flight to get off Long Island.
  5. (transitive) To dismount or climb down from (something).
    • Get off the tractor, sir!
  6. (transitive) To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
    • "I get up and get the kids off. I do everything normal mothers do. I just do it in less time."2010, Peter Lovenheim, In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, Penguin, →ISBN
  7. (dated, possibly) To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip).
    • "I think we should get off, Enid. It is nearly seven," said he.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    • “I've been out for a walk around. The rain's blown over. We'll be able to get off right after breakfast.”2016, D. G. Compton, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 155
  8. (intransitive, transitive) To leave one's job, school or another commitment, as scheduled or with permission.
    • If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home.
  9. (intransitive) To leave work consistently at a designated time.
    • I get off at four, as always.
  10. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To leave a project or assignment.
    • I'm hoping to get off the Henderson project.
  12. (transitive) To stop following, harassing or nitpicking (someone).
    • You need to get off my ass!
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  1. (transitive) 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.
  2. (slang, transitive) To stop partaking or participating (in a course of action, habit or activity).
    • You need to get off the candy.
    • I'll get off this low-carb diet.
  3. (slang, transitive) To quit using a drug.
    • I need to get off heroin.
  4. (intransitive) 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.
    • You got off lightly by not being kept in detention for breaking that window.
  5. (transitive) 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.
  6. (US, dated, ditransitive, intransitive, slang) To steal (something) successfully.
    • We got off with the loot.
    • The pickpocket got my watch off me.
  7. (ditransitive) To acquire (something) from (someone or something).
    • Go get a cup of sugar off Missus Haggerty next door.
    • Well I'll have to get a form off Rosemary Boyle to get money out your bank.2001, Jonathan Harvey, Out In The Open, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, →ISBN
  8. (transitive) To send (something); to discharge (a communication).
    • She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning.
    • I got the email off before the deadline.
  9. (ditransitive) To receive data, a message, etc.
    • We're getting a signal off the satellite dish.
    • I'll get today's lunch off the menu.
  10. (UK, transitive) To make (someone) fall asleep.
    • He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning.
  11. (UK, intransitive) To fall asleep.
    • If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again.
    Synonyms:
    drop off
  12. (slang, transitive) To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
    • I know how to get her off.
    • This woman hadn't had an orgasm in maybe 10 years. It took me three hours to get her off.1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere)
  13. (intransitive, slang) To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm; to get off on (something).
    • It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off.
    • I knew, because both Alison and Penny had taught me, that busting up with someone could be miserable, but I didn't know that getting off with someone could be miserable too.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 19
    Synonyms:
    cop off
  14. (slang, transitive) To masturbate; to achieve sexual satisfaction through masturbation.
    • I hadn't gotten myself off in weeks.
  15. (UK, intransitive, slang) To kiss; to flirt successfully; to hook up or make out with a desired person.
    • I'd like to get off with him after the party.
  16. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To get high (on a drug); to get (someone) high on a drug.
    • I really get off with cocaine.
    • That drug dealer's heroin really gets the addicts off.
  17. (especially, transitive) To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
    • Where do you get off talking to me like that?
    • in a word: he’s almost nobody,
      but his head’s filled with freedom, omniscience, transcendence
      beyond his foolish flesh,
      just where does he get off!1981, Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, “A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope”, translating Wisława Szymborska, “Sto Pociech” in Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wisława Szymborska
  18. (dated, transitive) To achieve (a goal); to successfully perform.
    • We'll get the concert off, I'm sure.
    • "If they get off their stunt I don't suppose they care a tinker's curse what is truth or what is not."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
  19. (US, dated, intransitive, slang) To perform a musical solo; to play music well.
  20. (transitive) To fart, burp, etc.
    • I felt better after I got a fart off.
  21. (dated, transitive) To utter.
    • I'm hoping to get off a joke during the dinner party.
    • He got a series of insults off before I could come up with a single retort.
  22. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off.

Interjection

get off

  1. (intransitive) Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
    • "And you're the only person in the country who can do it."
      "Get off," she said skeptically.2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 140

get off meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi

get off in Urdu

نکل بھاگنا, پھلنا پھولنا, اترنا

get off in Malayalam

dismount (from), alight (from), step off
ഇറങ്ങുക, താഴെയിറങ്ങുക, താഴത്തിറങ്ങുക, വാഹനത്തിൽ നിന്നിറങ്ങുക, ഇറങ്ങിപ്പോകുക, മുകളിൽനിന്നിറങ്ങുക
be acquitted, escape punishment, be absolved
ശിക്ഷയിൽനിന്നു മുക്തിലഭിക്കുക, കുറ്റവിമുക്തമാക്കപ്പെടുക, കുറ്റമോചനം ചെയ്യപ്പെടുക, മോചിതനാകുക, പ്രതിസ്ഥാനത്തുനിന്ന് ഒഴിവാക്കപ്പെടുക, നിർദ്ദോഷിയെന്നു പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കപ്പെടുക

get off in Kannada

ಹೊರಬರು, ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಬಿಡುವುಪಡೆ

get off in Punjabi

to get off; dismount; descend
لہنا lahaṇā
More languagesFewer languages
get off in Tagalog
bumaba
get off in Arabic
نَزَلَ nazala
get off in Indonesian
turun
get off in Thai
ลง long
get off in Vietnamese
xuống xe

Examples of get off in a sentence

  • WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:
  • I wish we could get off right after breakfast.'2017, Jane Gardam, Faith Fox, Europa Editions, →ISBN:
  • He was allowed to rise with a warning that if he played any tricks he would not get off so lightly the second time.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)...
  • For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, page 47:

Synonyms of get off

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Forms of get off

third-person singular presentgets off
present participlegetting off
pastgot off
past participle UKgot off
past participle USgotten off

Words formed from get off

Questions about get off

What does get off mean?
Get off means to move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
What is get off in Urdu?
Get off in Urdu is نکل بھاگنا, پھلنا پھولنا, اترنا. See Get off meaning in Urdu.
How do you use get off in a sentence?
WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.
What part of speech is get off?
Get off can be a verb or an interjection.
What is the past tense of get off?
The past tense of get off is got off.

Words near get off in the dictionary

  1. get married
  2. get medieval
  3. get misty
  4. get moving
  5. get nowhere fast
  6. get off
  7. get off at Haymarket
  8. get off at Redfern
  9. get off lightly
  10. get off my lawn
  11. get off of someone's cloud

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get off (page history and authors); get off (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); get off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); get off (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); لہنا (Punjabi) (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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