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knock off
verb- to cease; to stop UK, 1649
- These girls worked hard–some of them didn’t knock off for a single night. — Milton Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 23, 1946
- I can knock off drinking. — Kylie Tennant, Lost Haven, p. 24, 1946
- So when he suggested knocking off, I didn’t have any reason for staying. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 125, 1953
- to finish a work shift, job, etc. UK, 1649
- One of our blokes went over to Sydney once and got a job. Knocks off at lunch time and breasts the nearest bar. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 18, 1972
- What time do we knock off around here? — Petra Christian, The Sexploiters, p. 46, 1973
- to kill US, 1879
- "When you going to knock Tracy off?" Ripple asked nervously. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 40, 1945
- They both had the chance to knock off Jack. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 21, 1947
- "Listen, rat"–Benny’s face paled–"one more word like that and I’ll plug you too. They can only burn me once, and I’d just as soon knock you off to stay alive as not." — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 85, 1947
- So why should I knock you off? — Marvin Wald and Albert Maltz, The Naked City, 1947
- One day rival gangsters caught up with Cunningham in an alley in I Street, and there he was knocked off. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 145, 1951
- Far as you know The Blade hasn’t knocked no one off. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 31, 1969
- to defeat; to despatch US, 1927
- They knock Port Stephens and Perth off in a straight one-day com-petition. — Bob Staines, Wot a Whopper, p. 27, 1982
- (of police) to arrest; to raid US, 1925
- We’ll knock off this croaker. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 18, 1945
- — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 323, 1970
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 69, 1996
- to rob, to steal US, 1917
- Diamond watched with an air of professional concern. "This stuff could get knocked off too," he warned Bacula. — Harry J. Anslinger, The Murderers, p. 72, 1961
- I have a great talent for knocking off things[.] — Jamie Mandelkau, Buttons, p. 77, 1971
- For now we got to knock the fuckin’ joint off. After that, then we’ll worry ‘bout spendin’ the cash. — Donald Goines, Daddy Cool, p. 172, 1974
- Somebody was pissed about that truck getting knocked off and the cops had nothing. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 69, 1996
- to reproduce a branded item, less expensively and usually illegally US
- "Knocking off" is trade slang for copying a competitor’s dress, cutting corners to sell it for a lower price. — Saturday Evening Post, p. 30, 21 September 1963
- Everybody knocks off everybody else. There are that many of my knits knocked off around Melbourne. Even in the Vic market there’s a sign saying "Just like Feathers!" — Sydney Morning Herald (Sunday Life), p. 7, 10 May 1998
- to sell or dispose of NEW ZEALAND
- They make those trinket affairs for him. Then he takes them out and knocks them off in town. — Vincnet O’Sullivan, Shuriken, p. 28, 1985
- of a male, to have sex AUSTRALIA
- I took her down to Basin Street and to a movie, then took her to my room and knocked her off. I was ready to go after I’d knocked her off one time. But the chick was really something–she couldn’t see anybody just knocking her off one time. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 182, 1965
- Terry leered at me through the doorway. "I’d knock you off anytime, darling," he said[.] — Petra Christian, The Sexploiters, p. 46, 1973
- to have sexual intercourse with someone US, 1943
- I told them: don’t join in the chorus about Sneed Hearn knocking off young birds and bashing the bottle, ‘cause he’ll only gain votes at the next elections: half his luck, the mugs will say. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 111, 1971
- If a sheilah’s unattached, the chances are she’ll start crapping on about wanting a “relationship” just because you’ve knocked her off a couple of times. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 41, 1985
- to seduce AUSTRALIA, 1950
- Well, he’s not knocking orf my sister-in-law and that’s for sure, and he’s not staying in this house a day longer. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 15, 1971
▶ knock off a piece
to have sex US, 1921- Doin’ the short change scene with the Geech, the grabbing, back to the pad, knocking off a li’l piece with Leelah... — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 64, 1977
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