stepping off

Verb

step off (third-person singular simple present steps off, present participle stepping off, simple past and past participle stepped off)

1. (separable) To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.
   • He measured the garden by stepping it off.
2. (African-American Vernacular, inseparable) To avoid a conflict; to back down.
   • You better step off, man...

   Antonyms:

   step

3. (inseparable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, off.
   • He stepped off the train.