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hit off en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To play the first shot off the fairway.
    • I hit off and drove a beauty 230 metres down the middle[.] 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 124:
  2. (dated, transitive) To describe with quick characteristic strokes.
    • to hit off a speaker
    • c. 1652-1654, Dorothy Osborne, letter to William Temple Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life?
  3. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, transitive) To give; to hand over.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hits off Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hitting off Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hit off Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hit off Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

hit it off