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dash off en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To leave a place quickly or briefly.
    • I have to dash off to the store, but I'll be back soon.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To write quickly or informally.
    • Let me dash off a quick note.
    • In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the "Dee" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time. 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 139:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dashing off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dashed off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dashed off Tense=Past lexicographic
dashes off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

scribble off