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hits off

hits off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hit off.

Meaning of hit off

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
  3. (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To give; to hand over.

Questions about hits off

What is hits off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hits off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hit off.

Words near hits off in the dictionary

  1. hits it off
  2. hits it up
  3. hits licks
  4. hits like a ton of bricks
  5. hits like a truck
  6. hits off
  7. hits on
  8. hits on all cylinders
  9. hits on all six
  10. hits one hard
  11. hits one out of the ball park

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