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View synonyms for push off

push off

verb

  1. Alsopush out to move into open water, as by being cast off from a mooring
  2. informal.
    intr to go away; leave
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Also, shove off . Leave, set out, depart, as in The patrol pushed off before dawn , or It's time to shove off . This usage alludes to the literal meaning of a person in a boat pushing against the bank or dock to move away from the shore. [ Colloquial ; early 1900s]
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Example Sentences

Then get against the side of the tank, and placing the ball ten or twelve feet away, try to secure it with one hand on a push-off.

Here we made the “tinkering” and the “first push-off” shots.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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