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dash off

verb

Definitions

  1. To leave a place quickly or briefly.

    • I have to dash off to the store, but I'll be back soon.

  2. To write quickly or informally.

    • Let me dash off a quick note.
    • In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the "Dee" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA