pop off
See also: Popoff
English
Verb
pop off (third-person singular simple present pops off, present participle popping off, simple past and past participle popped off)
- (intransitive, informal) To leave, and return in a short time.
- I'm just popping off to the shops to pick up some bread.
- (intransitive, informal) To die suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To kill someone.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 35
- When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow’s-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 35
- (intransitive, informal, usually derogatory) To speak frankly.
- popping off at the mouth
- (intransitive, informal) To release flatulence, in most cases, in short rapid succession.
- To thrust away, or put off promptly.
- to pop one off with a denial
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)
- (transitive, informal, UK) To turn off.
- Pop that light off, will you?
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