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push off

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push off (third-person singular simple present pushes off, present participle pushing off, simple past and past participle pushed off)

  1. (intransitive, colloquial, often imperative) To go away; to get lost.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick[1], chapter 23:
      I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
  2. (intransitive, basketball) to commit a foul by pushing against an opponent to both accelerate more quickly and push the opponent in the opposite direction.
  3. (transitive) To delay, postpone, put off, push back.

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