pop off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops off
form: popping off
form: popped off
form: popped off
Senses: examples: text: I'm just popping off to the shops to pick up some bread.
glosses: To leave and return in a short time.
glosses: To die suddenly.
examples: text: When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow’s-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 35, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 173:
text: Dig your own grave, then I'll pop you off!
ref: 1923, Margaret J. Winkler, “Felix Strikes It Rich”, in Felix the Cat:
synonyms: word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
glosses: To kill someone.
examples: text: The Long Lances, however, were thick in the water, and soon Portland was hit in the stern, sending her turning donuts across the ocean trying to work out which way to point her guns, popping off occasional shots at Hiei, which, by now, was heavily ablaze and a very obvious target in the night.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 20:44 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
glosses: To fire or launch (a shot, projectile, or missile), especially singly or in small bursts.
examples: text: popping off at the mouth
glosses: To speak frankly.
glosses: To release flatulence, generally in short rapid succession.
examples: text: to pop one off with a denial
text: Perhaps it may not ſometimes be amiſs to excite their Curioſity, by bringing ſtrange and new things in their way on purpoſe to engage their Enquiry, and give them occaſion to inform themſelves about them: And if by chance their Curioſity leads them to ask, what they ſhould not know, it is a great deal better to tell them plainly, That it is a thing that belongs not not to them to know, than to pop them off with a Falſhood, or a frivolous Anſwer.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§.114. 4.”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, pages 139–140:
glosses: To thrust away, or put off promptly.
examples: text: Pop that light off, will you?
glosses: To turn off.
examples: text: After changing my mouse sensitivity, I immediately started popping off.
text: Pop off, queen!
synonyms: go off
glosses: To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity).