Word: get off Part of Speech: verb 1. To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Get off your chair and help me. Example: Get off! You're crushing me! 2. To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Get your butt off your chair and help me. Example: Could you please get the book off the top shelf for me? 3. To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Get off! You're crushing me! 4. To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Don't tickle me – get off! Example: You need to get off your sister if you want dessert tonight. 5. To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. Labels: ditransitive, intransitive, transitive Example: I can't wait to get these clothes off. Example: You have to get your hat off your head. 6. To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. Labels: ditransitive, intransitive, transitive Example: I got the paint off the wall. 7. To depart from a location, route or conveyance. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: You get off the train at the third stop. Example: The heavens opened just as I got off the bus. 8. To depart from a location, route or conveyance. Labels: transitive Example: Let's get off the interstate at exit 70. No, let's get off at the very next exit. Example: When we reach the next stop, we'll get off. 9. To depart from a location, route or conveyance. Labels: transitive Example: We'll catch a flight to get off Long Island. 10. To depart from a location, route or conveyance. Labels: transitive Example: Get off the tractor, sir! 11. To depart from a location, route or conveyance. Labels: transitive Example: "I get up and get the kids off. I do everything normal mothers do. I just do it in less time." 12. To depart from a location, route or conveyance. Labels: dated, possibly Example: "I think we should get off, Enid. It is nearly seven," said he. Example: “I've been out for a walk around. The rain's blown over. We'll be able to get off right after breakfast.” 13. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home. 14. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: intransitive Example: I get off at four, as always. 15. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: transitive Example: She managed to get a week off in March to go to Paris. 16. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: transitive Example: I'm hoping to get off the Henderson project. 17. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: transitive Example: You need to get off my ass! 18. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: transitive Example: Can you get off the phone, please? I need to use it urgently. 19. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: slang, transitive Example: You need to get off the candy. Example: I'll get off this low-carb diet. 20. To leave from a job or stop an experience. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I need to get off heroin. 21. To avoid consequences or assist in the avoidance of consequences. Labels: intransitive Example: The vandal got off easy, with only a fine. Example: You got off lightly by not being kept in detention for breaking that window. 22. To avoid consequences or assist in the avoidance of consequences. Labels: transitive Example: She could've faced jail time, but her talented lawyer got her off with only a fine. 23. To avoid consequences or assist in the avoidance of consequences. Labels: US, dated, ditransitive, intransitive, slang Example: We got off with the loot. Example: The pickpocket got my watch off me. 24. To transmit or receive (something). Labels: ditransitive Example: Go get a cup of sugar off Missus Haggerty next door. Example: Well I'll have to get a form off Rosemary Boyle to get money out your bank. 25. To transmit or receive (something). Labels: transitive Example: She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning. Example: I got the email off before the deadline. 26. To transmit or receive (something). Labels: ditransitive Example: We're getting a signal off the satellite dish. Example: I'll get today's lunch off the menu. 27. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: UK, transitive Example: He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning. 28. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: UK, intransitive Example: If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again. 29. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I know how to get her off. Example: This woman hadn't had an orgasm in maybe 10 years. It took me three hours to get her off. 30. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off. Example: I knew, because both Alison and Penny had taught me, that busting up with someone could be miserable, but I didn't know that getting off with someone could be miserable too. 31. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I hadn't gotten myself off in weeks. 32. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: UK, intransitive, slang Example: I'd like to get off with him after the party. 33. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: intransitive, slang, transitive Example: I really get off with cocaine. Example: That drug dealer's heroin really gets the addicts off. 34. To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind. Labels: especially, transitive Example: Where do you get off talking to me like that? Example: in a word: he’s almost nobody, but his head’s filled with freedom, omniscience, transcendence beyond his foolish flesh, just where does he get off! 35. To succeed in an act; to perform an action. Labels: dated, transitive Example: We'll get the concert off, I'm sure. Example: "If they get off their stunt I don't suppose they care a tinker's curse what is truth or what is not." 36. To succeed in an act; to perform an action. Labels: US, dated, intransitive, slang 37. To succeed in an act; to perform an action. Labels: transitive Example: I felt better after I got a fart off. 38. To succeed in an act; to perform an action. Labels: dated, transitive Example: I'm hoping to get off a joke during the dinner party. Example: He got a series of insults off before I could come up with a single retort. 39. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off.