knock off

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#1·4h ago

(transitive, slang) To kill.

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#2·4h ago

(transitive) To remove, as a discount or estimate.

The mobsters hired the guy to knock off their enemies.

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#3·4h ago

(ambitransitive, slang) To halt one's work or other activity.

I think I'll knock off for the evening and go to bed.

Origin: In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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