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get off on en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (slang) To be excited or aroused by; to derive pleasure from.
    • I don't get off on champagne.
    • I wasn’t getting off on the sex as much as I was getting off on being romantically inaccessible for the first time in my life. 2026 June 12, Emily Ratajkowski, “Mother F*cker”, in The Cut:
    • Now's the chance to get off on your new math tricks: twelve times eight is the same as ten times eight plus two times eight... eighty plus sixteen: ninety-six! 1973, “Figure Eight”, in Bob Dorough (music), Multiplication Rock, performed by Schoolhouse Rock!/Blossom Dearie:
  2. (US, dated, slang) To fight (somebody); to win a fight against (someone); to insult or provoke (someone) to a fight.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gotten off on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
getting off on Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
got off on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got off on Tense=Past lexicographic
gets off on Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

get on · get off

Synonyms

get a charge out of