bring off

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Verb

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bring off (third-person singular simple present brings off, present participle bringing off, simple past and past participle brought off)

  1. To succeed in doing something considered to be very difficult.
    I don't know how, but he managed to bring off the Acme Foods deal.
  2. To bring to orgasm.
    • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
      And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy
    • 2002, William P. Case, South Caicos Tailwind:
      She brought him off with her mouth, while gently tickling his balls, and got herself off with her fingers while she did him.
  3. (archaic) To rescue; to liberate.
  4. To bring away from; to bring by boat from a ship, a wreck, the shore, etc.
  5. (transitive, slang) To steal.
  6. (obsolete) To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.

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