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hitting off

hitting off is the present participle and gerund 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 hitting off

What is hitting off the present participle and gerund of?
Hitting off is the present participle and gerund of hit off.

Words near hitting off in the dictionary

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

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