GET OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get off mean? 

• GET OFF (verb)
  The verb GET OFF has 11 senses:

1. leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.

2. be relieved of one's duties temporarily

3. transfer

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

5. escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

6. enjoy in a sexual way

7. alight from (a horse)

8. get out of quickly

9. send via the postal service

10. get high, stoned, or drugged

11. deliver verbally

  Familiarity information: GET OFF used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get off"):

detrain (leave a train)

deplane (get off an airplane)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

get on (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be relieved of one's duties temporarily

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Transfer

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

get off; send; send off

Context example:

The spy sent the classified information off to Russia

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

escape; get away; get by; get off; get out

Context example:

I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get off"):

evade (use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Enjoy in a sexual way

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

He gets off on shoes

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

enjoy; love (get pleasure from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 7

Meaning:

Alight from (a horse)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

dismount; get down; get off; light; unhorse

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

Domain category:

horseback riding; riding (travel by being carried on horseback)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 8

Meaning:

Get out of quickly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

get off; hop out

Context example:

The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 9

Meaning:

Send via the postal service

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

get off; mail

Context example:

I'll mail you the check tomorrow

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

send; send out (to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get off"):

pouch (send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 10

Meaning:

Get high, stoned, or drugged

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

get off; trip; trip out; turn on

Context example:

He trips every weekend

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something

Sense 11

Meaning:

Deliver verbally

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

He got off the best line I've heard in a long time

Hypernyms (to "get off" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I think so too, Miss. Bessie said she was sure you would not refuse: but I suppose you will have to ask leave before you can get off?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You can now get off the merry-go-round of life and spend quality time together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I have never seen a man get off his horse as quick as did that stranger Englishman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"I knew you were turning the conversation just in order to get off something."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nay, said the maid, if you are thirsty, get off yourself, and stoop down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Challenger might get off, but Summerlee and I were in the bill.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates, cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Martin told Jimmy that he would get off at Sixteenth Street Station and catch the electric car into Oakland.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I wished to leave immediately after the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who had come down to direct his sister's interment and settle the family affairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)