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hit off

hit off verb: to play the first shot off the fairway.

Verb

hit off (third-person singular simple present hits off, present participle hitting off, simple past and past participle hit off)

  1. To play the first shot off the fairway.
    • I hit off and drove a beauty 230 metres down the middle[.]1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 124
  2. (dated, transitive) To describe with quick characteristic strokes.
    • to hit off a speaker
    • Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life?c. 1652-1654, Dorothy Osborne, letter to William Temple
  3. (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To give; to hand over.

Forms of hit off

third-person singular presenthits off
present participlehitting off
past participlehit off
pasthit off

Questions about hit off

What does hit off mean?
Hit off means to play the first shot off the fairway.
What part of speech is hit off?
Hit off is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit off?
The past tense of hit off is hit off.

Words near hit off in the dictionary

  1. hit list
  2. hit lists
  3. hit man
  4. hit me
  5. hit men
  6. hit off
  7. hit off the line
  8. hit on
  9. hit on all cylinders
  10. hit on all six
  11. hit one hard

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