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Get off

verb

Leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.. Antonym: get on.

Be relieved of one's duties temporarily.

Transfer. Synonyms: send, send off.

Cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case.

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action. Synonyms: escape, get away, get by, get out. "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"

Enjoy in a sexual way.

Alight from (a horse). Synonyms: dismount, get down, light, unhorse.

Get out of quickly. Synonym: hop out. Antonym: hop on.

Send via the postal service. Synonym: mail.

10.

Get high, stoned, or drugged. Synonyms: trip, trip out, turn on.

11.

Deliver verbally.

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"Get off" Quotes from Famous Books

... healthful appearance and natural delicacy gave them a ready welcome. They appeared as if they had been brought up to fear God and love their humble home and mother. I had often stopped my train and let them get off at their home, having found them at the station some three miles from home, ...

— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various

... an Act, but they haven't passed it yet. They might prove a breach of trust against me. But I'll diddle them. Keep your pecker up, and get off abroad." ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... departure from that island, the boats of the two ships, which were sent for a last load of water, were attacked by the natives with stones and clubs, and M. De l'Angle, the captain of the Astrolabe, with eleven officers and men, were put to death; those who were so fortunate as to get off in the small boats that attended on the watering launches (which were destroyed), escaped with many wounds and contusions, some of which were not healed at the time of their relating to us this unfortunate circumstance. It was conjectured, that some one of the seamen, unknown ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins

... Slickville Gazette, I guess few would accept it as a bona fide draft, without some 'sponsible man to indorse it, that warn't given to flammin'. They'd say there was a land speculation to the bottom of it, or water privilege to put into the market, or a plaister rock to get off, or some such scheme. They would, I snore. But I hope I may never see daylight agin, if there's sich a country in all our great nation, as the VI-cinity ...

— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... the girls?" asked the visitor, her quick eyes roving approvingly around the immaculate kitchen. "Did the poor lady get off safely?" ...

— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence

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