1. An unauthorized copy or imitation
   "She bought a knockoff designer handbag from a street vendor";
   - clone

1. Stop pursuing or acting
   "Let's knock off work early today";
   - drop
    
2. Take by theft
   "He was going to knock off the phone someone had left behind";
   - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, cop [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], boost [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [archaic, informal], purloin [informal], pinch [Brit, informal], abstract [informal], snarf [N. Amer, informal], swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], lift [informal], nick [Brit, informal], snatch [informal], whip [Brit, informal], blag [Brit, informal]
    
3. Cut the price of
   "They knocked off $50 from the asking price";
   - shave
    
4. Write quickly without much care or effort
   "He knocked off the report in twenty minutes";
   - dash off, scratch off, toss off [informal], fling off
    
5. Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
   "the double agent was knocked off";
   - neutralize, neutralise [Brit], liquidate, waste [informal], do in [informal], clip [informal], whack [informal], take out [informal]

Derived forms: knocks off, knocking off, knockoffs, knocked off

See also: bump off [informal], croak [informal], despatch [Brit], dispatch, murder, off [N. Amer, informal], polish off [informal], slay [literary]

Type of: break, break off, bring down, cease, compose, copy, cut, cut back, cut down, discontinue, give up, indite [archaic], kill, lay off, pen, quit, reduce, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], steal, stop, surcease [archaic], trim, trim back, trim down, write

Encyclopedia: Knockoff