POP OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pop off mean? 

• POP OFF (verb)
  The verb POP OFF has 2 senses:

1. leave quickly

2. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

  Familiarity information: POP OFF used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POP OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leave quickly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Context example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

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

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

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

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

But “no, he was a short-necked, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)