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🏠 To finish work 🙅 To stop bothering ⚖️ To avoid punishment 🚶 To leave 🔥 To feel aroused 💊 To get high 😄 To say a joke
to get off

to get off

24 9.9
To become high from using drugs
  • phrasal verb
  • NSFW
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  • Get up earlier, eat better, drink more fluids, get off the drugs, exercise more.

But do you think people don't get off or get a high from giving?

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Examples

  • And you're if you get off the drug, you're going to go through extreme withdrawals.

  • - The Lord gave my son the strength to get off drugs.

    Little Nicky (2000)

  • But this person had been hitting the sauce for decades and then they got off and that was inspiring to me.

  • After years of struggle, he finally managed to get off drugs and rebuild his life.

  • She found a support group that helped her get off the substances that were controlling her.

  • Many people find it difficult to get off alcohol without professional help.

Synonyms

to get high
vsto get off
  • NSFW
112 9.3

Feel very happy and different after taking drugs or alcohol

is slang for becoming intoxicated in that same way
to turn on
vsto get off
  • NSFW
8 9.8

To take drugs so you feel high

focuses on reaching the intoxicated state rather than the change into it
to trip out
vsto get off
  • NSFW
3 9.8

Feel strange and see or hear things after taking drugs

refers more generally to becoming intoxicated, not only intense mental change

Antonyms

to come down
221 2.8

To become lower, for example temperature or prices

to sober up
33 4.6

To stop being drunk and feel normal again

How Intoxicated

wasted
  • NSFW
8.4
to get off
  • NSFW
24 9.9
tipsy
  • Informal
18 4.8

Surface Forms

get off infinitive
got off past
got off past participle
getting off present participle
gets off third person singular

Morphology

get + off

The sense 'leave a vehicle' is directly derivable from combining a motion verb 'get' (move/arrive at) with the particle 'off' (away from a surface), so that reading is transparent to learners. However, the extension 'stop bothering/irritating someone' is a metaphorical use of 'off' (move away from/contact removed) and requires recognition of a figurative transfer, so overall the item is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Get off as slang for getting high uses the image of feeling lifted up or taken away from the usual state, like being carried 'off' your feet by a drug or experience. That's why people use it to mean 'to become intoxicated' or 'to get high'.