hit off

English

Verb

hit off (third-person singular simple present hits off, present participle hitting off, simple past and past participle hit off)

1. (transitive, dated) 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?

2. (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To give; to hand over.

See also

• hit it off