get off

Definitions

1. 1

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off.

   • Get off your chair and help me.
   • Get off! You're crushing me!
2. 2

   To depart from a location, route or conveyance.

   • You get off the train at the third stop.
   • The heavens opened just as I got off the bus.
   • WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.
3. 3

   To leave from a job or stop an experience.

   • If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home.
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   1. 4

      To avoid consequences or assist in the avoidance of consequences.

      • The vandal got off easy, with only a fine.
      • You got off lightly by not being kept in detention for breaking that window.
      • "But I find you have been there after all," said the man, "and now you shall lose your life." The lad cried and begged for himself till he got off with his life; but he got a good thrashing.
   2. 5

      To transmit or receive (something).

      • Go get a cup of sugar off Missus Haggerty next door.
      • Well I'll have to get a form off Rosemary Boyle to get money out your bank.
      • They said if they sent a form to me it would take about ten days, but if I could get a form off the Internet, I would greatly speed up the process.
   3. 6

      To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

      • He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning.
   4. 7

      To succeed in an act

      To succeed in an act; to perform an action.

      • We'll get the concert off, I'm sure.
      • "If they get off their stunt I don't suppose they care a tinker's curse what is truth or what is not."
   5. 8

      Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.

      • "And you're the only person in the country who can do it." "Get off," she said skeptically.

The neighborhood

• synonymget downmove from being on top of
• antonymget onantonym(s) of “disembark”
• antonymget inantonym(s) of “disembark”