push off

verb

pushed off; pushing off; pushes off

intransitive verb

: set out

we pushed off for home

Synonyms

• bail
• bail out
• begone
• book [slang]
• bug off
• bug out
• bugger off [British slang]
• buzz (off)
• clear off [chiefly British]
• clear out
• cut out
• depart
• dig out
• exit
• get
• get off
• go
• go off
• move
• pack (up or off)
• part
• peel off
• pike (out or off)
• pull out
• push on
• quit
• run along
• sally (forth)
• scarper [British]
• shove (off)
• step (along)
• take off
• vamoose
• walk out

Examples of push off in a Sentence

let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush

Recent Examples on the Web

Roll through each step from striking with the heel, rolling through the mid foot, and pushing off with the toes. —Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024

Whether San Francisco has enough shelter beds to accommodate the potential wave of people pushed off the streets is unclear. —Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024

And they didn’t get scolded or pushed off or told to get off. —Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 3 June 2024

News outlets in Australia – where telecommunications were severely affected – were pushed off air for hours. —Charlotte Graham-McLay, Elaine Kurtenbach, and David McHugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined above