step off
English
Verb
- (separable) To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.
- He measured the garden by stepping it off.
- (African-American Vernacular, inseparable) To avoid a conflict; to back down
- You had better step off, man...
- (inseparable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, off.
- He stepped off the train.