To depart from a location, route or conveyance.

• We'll catch a flight to get off Long Island.

To depart from a location, route or conveyance.

• Get off the tractor, sir!

To depart from a location, route or conveyance.

• "I get up and get the kids off. I do everything normal mothers do. I just do it in less time."

datedTo depart from a location, route or conveyance.

• "I think we should get off, Enid. It is nearly seven," said he.
• “I've been out for a walk around. The rain's blown over. We'll be able to get off right after breakfast.”

To leave from a job or stop an experience.

• If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home.

To leave from a job or stop an experience.

• I get off at four, as always.

To leave from a job or stop an experience.

• She managed to get a week off in March to go to Paris.

To leave from a job or stop an experience.

• I'm hoping to get off the Henderson project.

To leave from a job or stop an experience.

• You need to get off my ass!

To leave from a job or stop an experience.

• Can you get off the phone, please? I need to use it urgently.

slangTo leave from a job or stop an experience.

• You need to get off the candy.
• I'll get off this low-carb diet.

slangTo leave from a job or stop an experience.

• I need to get off heroin.

To avoid consequences or assist in the avoidance of consequences.

• The vandal got off easy, with only a fine.
• You got off lightly by not being kept in detention for breaking that window.

To avoid consequences or assist in the avoidance of consequences.

• She could've faced jail time, but her talented lawyer got her off with only a fine.

datedslangTo avoid consequences or assist in the avoidance of consequences.

• We got off with the loot.
• The pickpocket got my watch off me.

To transmit or receive (something).

• Go get a cup of sugar off Missus Haggerty next door.
• Well I'll have to get a form off Rosemary Boyle to get money out your bank.

To transmit or receive (something).

• She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning.
• I got the email off before the deadline.

To transmit or receive (something).

• We're getting a signal off the satellite dish.
• I'll get today's lunch off the menu.

To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning.

To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again.

slangTo cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• I know how to get her off.
• This woman hadn't had an orgasm in maybe 10 years. It took me three hours to get her off.

slangTo cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off.
• 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.

slangTo cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• I hadn't gotten myself off in weeks.

slangTo cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• I'd like to get off with him after the party.

slangTo cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• I really get off with cocaine.
• That drug dealer's heroin really gets the addicts off.

To cause or act as to cause an emotion, sensation or state of mind.

• Where do you get off talking to me like that?
• 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!

datedTo succeed in an act; to perform an action.

• We'll get the concert off, I'm sure.
• "If they get off their stunt I don't suppose they care a tinker's curse what is truth or what is not."

datedslangTo succeed in an act; to perform an action.

To succeed in an act; to perform an action.

• I felt better after I got a fart off.

datedTo succeed in an act; to perform an action.

• I'm hoping to get off a joke during the dinner party.
• He got a series of insults off before I could come up with a single retort.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off.