fall offverb

• 1

  To become detached or to drop from.

  • A button fell off my coat.
  • Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet. For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert.
• 2

  To diminish in size, value, etc.; to get worse (in quality).

  • Business always falls off in the winter.
  • MC ___'s new album is wack - he's fallen off big-time.
• 3

  nauticaltransportTo change the direction of a sail so as to point in a direction that is more down wind; to bring the bow leeward.

  • 'Why d'ye see, Captain Vangs,' says bold Jack, 'I'm as good a helmsman as ever put hand to spoke; but none of us can steer the old lady now. We can't keep her full and bye, sir; watch her ever so close, she will fall off and then, sir, when I put the helm down so gently, and try like to coax her to the work, she won't take it kindly, but will fall round off again; and it's all because she knows the land is under the lee, sir, and she won't go any more to windward.'
  • 1854, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Lawrence v. Minturn, Opinion of the Court She would not mind her helm, but would fall off; she would settle down aft and take in water over her stern, and plunged heavily forward.
• 4

  To fall into sin; to stray.

  • I am bound to say that no one has fallen off so frequently as myself. I have renounced the devil and all his works; but it is by word of mouth only—by word of mouth only.

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