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jet off

jet off verb: to go by airplane to a destination.

Verb

jet off (third-person singular simple present jets off, present participle jetting off, simple past and past participle jetted off)

  1. (intransitive) To go by airplane to a destination.
    • By then the summer surge was already dwindling, as travellers switched to the roads or jetted off to beach resorts abroad.2025 July 9, Richard Foster, “Summer specials and holiday hotspots”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 60
  2. (intransitive) To depart hurriedly.
    • “Clown Without Pity,” as the segment is called, opens with Homer forgetting Bart’s birthday and jetting off at the last minute (or rather considerably after the last minute) to pick him up a present.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of jet off

third-person singular presentjets off
present participlejetting off
past participlejetted off
pastjetted off

Questions about jet off

What does jet off mean?
Jet off means to go by airplane to a destination.
What part of speech is jet off?
Jet off is a verb.
What is the past tense of jet off?
The past tense of jet off is jetted off.

Words near jet off in the dictionary

  1. jet lighter
  2. jet liner
  3. jet liners
  4. jet machine
  5. jet machines
  6. jet off
  7. jet pack
  8. jet packs
  9. jet pipe
  10. jet pipes
  11. jet plane

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