step-off

[ step-awf, -of ]

noun

1. an abrupt drop, as from a shoreline into deep water.

Word History and Origins

Origin of step-off¹

Noun use of verb phrase step off

Example Sentences

To the massive relief of the state’s agribusiness, this outbreak and most of those to come — unlike the desolation of Florida’s commercial agriculture — were aggressively confined pretty much to small-scale commercial growers and to gentlemen cultivators with backyard trees, the kind of pocket orchards that had enticed Midwestern immigrants here with the promise that you could just step off your back porch to pluck your morning orange.

From Los Angeles Times

Every time I step off the platform and onto those hallowed hallways of the concourse, it’s heart shapes and moons and stars in my eyes all over again.”

From Los Angeles Times

The first march is scheduled to step off Monday, just as the convention is getting started.

From Los Angeles Times

“In hip-hop we have this thing, you step up or you step off… You need to know your place.”

From BBC

Thousands of revelers took to Hollywood on Sunday morning as the annual Pride parade was set to step off on Sunset Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times