get off

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === get off (third-person singular simple present gets off, present participle getting off, simple past got off, past participle (UK) got off or (US) gotten off) (transitive, intransitive) To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it. (transitive) To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it. (intransitive) To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone. (transitive) To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else). (transitive) To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer. (transitive, intransitive) To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc). (transitive) To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place). (possibly dated) To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip). (transitive, intransitive) To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission. (transitive) To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work. (transitive) To acquire (something) from (someone). 2017, Barbara Robey Egloff Shackett, Stranded in Montana; Dumped in Arizona, Dorrance Publishing (→ISBN), page 202: They said if they sent a form to me it would take about ten days, but if I could get a form off the Internet, I would greatly speed up the process. (intransitive) To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of. (transitive) To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment. (transitive) To (write and) send (something); to discharge. (transitive, dated) To utter. 1942-1963, J. F. Powers, quoted in 2013, Katherine A. Powers, Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963, Macmillan (→ISBN), page 155: I heard Nelson Algren on the Chez Show, a radio program emanating from the Sapphire Bar of the Chez Paree—you see I've sunk to the lower depths—and he got off a line about Hollywood being a con man's paradise, which wasn't a very ... (transitive, UK) To make (someone) fall asleep. (intransitive, UK) To fall asleep. (transitive, slang) To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm. (intransitive, slang) To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm. (transitive, slang) To masturbate. (intransitive, slang, UK) To kiss; to smooch. (intransitive, slang) To get high (on a drug). (transitive, slang) To quit using a drug. (transitive, especially in an interrogative sentence) To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner). 1981, Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire, “A Million Laughs, A Bright Hope”, translating Wisława Szymborska, “Sto Pociech” in Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wisława Szymborska: (intransitive) Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness. (dated) To achieve (a goal); to successfully perform. (dated, slang, US, transitive) To steal (something). (dated, slang, US, intransitive) To perform a musical solo; to play music well. ==== Synonyms ==== (move from being on top of): get down (from) (stop touching someone): stop, desist, refrain, leave alone, let alone (disembark): alight, disembark from, leave, detrain (from a train), debus (from a bus), deplane (from an aircraft) (fall asleep): drop off (experience sexual pleasure): cop off ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “disembark”): get on or get in ==== Derived terms ==== get off on get off with tell someone where to get off ==== Translations ====