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shoo off

shoo off verb: to send away; to shoo.

Verb

shoo off (third-person singular simple present shooes off, present participle shooing off, simple past and past participle shooed off)

  1. (transitive) To send away; to shoo.
    • Even when Holmes & Watson stumbles into something that could, in theory, make a decent gag—as in a scene where Watson tries to dictate a drunk, late-night telegram to Dr. Hart, or a visit to the Diogenes Club that finds him shooed off to a side room for idiot sidekicks—it bungles it with bad timing...2018 December 25, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2019

Forms of shoo off

third-person singular presentshooes off
present participleshooing off
past participleshooed off
pastshooed off

Questions about shoo off

What does shoo off mean?
Shoo off means to send away; to shoo.
What part of speech is shoo off?
Shoo off is a verb.
What is the past tense of shoo off?
The past tense of shoo off is shooed off.

Words near shoo off in the dictionary

  1. shonuff
  2. shoo
  3. shoo away
  4. shoo in
  5. shoo ins
  6. shoo off
  7. shoo-ee
  8. shoo-fly pie
  9. shoo-fly pies
  10. shoo-fly plant
  11. shoo-fly plants

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