Sekirov Dictionary

come off

verb 10
come-off noun 2
forms 4

verb10

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To become detached.
- One of the wagon wheels came off.
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To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
- I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention.
- You should be careful about how you come off during interviews.
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To have some success; to succeed.
- He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off.
To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something).
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To stop playing (music).
- I had to say, ‘Come off after the second beat, don’t hang on!’ (as per Mahler’s instructions). — 2018
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To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
- Well that is precisely what I did, and as I had never heard of using gloves and veil in connection with bees I suppose I came off lightly with one sting on the tip of the nose. — 1952
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To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.
- It came off as we expected.
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To come away (from a place); to leave.
- The 290 bus route comes off the A316 at Hanworth.
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(old-fashioned) To have an orgasm.
- She turned and looked at him. ‘We came off together that time,’ he said. […] ‘Don't people often come off together?’ she asked with naive curiosity. — 1928
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(no longer used) To finish being printed.
- This one came off easily.

come-off noun2

An outcome or conclusion; the way that a situation turns out.
An evasive answer or postponement; an act of putting someone off.

forms

came off · coming off · comes off · come-offs

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