1. Leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
   "Passengers got off the bus at the terminal"
    
2. Get out of quickly
   "The passengers got off the burning bus";
   - hop out
    
3. [informal] Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
   "The teenager got off with just a warning";
   - get away, get out, escape
    
4. (law) cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
   "The lawyer managed to get her client off"
    
5. Be relieved of one's duties temporarily
   "The nurse got off early to attend her daughter's recital"
    
6. [informal] Get high, stoned, or drugged
   "The teenagers got off on illegal substances";
   - trip, trip out [informal], turn on [informal]
    
7. [informal] Enjoy in a sexual way
   "He gets off on shoes"
    
8. (riding) alight from (a horse)
   "The rider get offd at the corner";
   - dismount, light, get down, demount
    
9. Deliver verbally
   "He got off the best line I've heard in a long time"
    
10. [Brit, informal] Have a sexual encounter with someone
    "she got off with him at the party";
    - hook up [informal], hook up with [informal], cop off [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: getting off, gets off, got off

Type of: alter, avoid, bask, break, break off, cease, change, come down, descend, discontinue, enjoy, exit, experience, express, feel, get out, give tongue to, give up, go down, go out, lay off, leave, love, modify, quit, relish, savor [US], savour [Brit, Cdn], stop, surcease [archaic], utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Antonym: get on

Encyclopedia: Get off