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take off
verb- to use a drug, especially to inject a drug US
- Peewee had cooked the stuff and was ready to take off. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 20, 1952
- “Do you mind if I take off here?”he asked, pulling off his coat. I had never heard anyone else use this expression. For an insane moment I thought he was making advances. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 55, 1953
- They take off. They get high. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 117, 1958
- In my building, on the roof I took off. — Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 189, 1964
- So Pig told the other guy to give me some. Now this next old guy he took off again, and he told me, “I’ll give you some now.” And he fixed it up. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 68, 1965
- When he has finally injected the heroin (he calls it “shooting up,” “taking off,” “getting off”, he may or may not go on a “nod,” his eyelids heavy, his mind wandering pleasantly[.] — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 15, 1966
- This guy Bobbie has took off 300 times. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Farm, p. 192, 1967
- Hip stayed at a rented room with a junkie girl with whom he’d taken off, after using her spike and giving her a share of his stuff. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 137, 1968
- Jim was the only guy I knew that had a shooting gallery where you could cop a speedball by buying a half cap of girl and a half cap of boy and take it off right there. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 98, 1973
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 113, 1996
- to bring someone to orgasm US
- Are you telling me she says she took him off five times? — Jimmy Snyder, Jimmy the Greek, p. 212, 1975
- to go; to leave UK, 1959
- And he sure took off in a hurry. He left behind a sack of groceries. — Michael Prescott, Comes the Dark, 1999
- in surfing, to catch the momentum of a wave and begin a ride US
- — Jim Allen, Locked in Surfing for Life, p. 196, 1970
- to rob a place; to steal something US
- I don’t want nobody trailin’ me to my stash so’s they can take it off. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 104, 1960
- On the way I propositioned him to go back to the house and take the guy off. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 129, 1965
- He supported his habit by taking off (robbing) connections, and almost anyone else in the junkie world who appeared to have money. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 35, 1966
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 181, 1971
- So the other kids would see them doing hard time and quit taking off the grocery stores and the old people’s social security money so they could buy those Bosalinis and support their scag jones. — Elmore Leonard, Switch, p. 100, 1978
- I’d been taken off a couple of times, but there’d been no beef. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 2, 1990
- “He thought we were trying to take him off,” I explained to Ann. — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 179, 1998
- to mimic or parody someone or something UK, 1766
▶ take off a piece of work
to masturbate US- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 72, 2002
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