Get Off
WordNet
verb
(1) Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
"She gets away with murder!"
"I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
(2) Cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
"The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife"
(3) Deliver verbally
"He got off the best line I've heard in a long time"
(4) Transfer
"The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"
(5) Get high, stoned, or drugged
"He trips every weekend"
(6) Send via the postal service
"I'll mail you the check tomorrow"
(7) Get out of quickly
"The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car"
(8) Get off (a horse)
(9) Leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
(10) Enjoy in a sexual way
"He gets off on shoes"
(11) Be relieved of one's duties temporarily
WiktionaryText
Verb
- To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- Get off your chair and help me.
- Get off your rear and help me.
- To move (something) from being on top of(something else) to not being on top of it.
- Could you get the book off the top shelf for me?
- To disembark from mass transportation, such as a bus or train.
- You get off the train at the third stop.
- To stop (doing something), to desist from (doing something).
- This is where you get off ordering me about!
- 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, ISBN 0525946284, page 140,
- "And you're the only person in the country who can do it."
- "Get off," she said skeptically.
- To stop using a piece of equipment.
- Can you get off the phone, please? I need to use it urgently.
- To complete a shift or a day's work.
- If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home.
- To stop touching or interfering with something or someone.
- Don't tickle me - get off!
- To disembark.
- When we reach the next stop, we'll get off.
- To have sex.
- You are not allowed to get off in my bedroom.
- (by extension) to become sexually aroused
- to incur (mild) consequences
- The vandal got off easy, with only a fine.
- To fall asleep
- If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again.
- ((In an interrogative sentence)) To observe a boundary in some (usually disapproved of) behaviour.
- Where do you get off talking to me like that?