to get off
35
9.6
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt ɔf/
- NSFW
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excitarse (con)
- Maybe he does, and he gets off on watching her with her black lover.
- get off on people
- get off on that kind
- hard to get off
Madonna's getting off with Praz, this tall, tall black guy, really cool rapper.
- Madonna's getting off with Praz, this tall, tall black guy, really cool rapper.
- The ones who really get off on being in women's spaces are the fetishistic transvestites.
Examples
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Poor old Woolley gets off just on the sound of other people doing it.
Fiction book (1998) -
"You really get off on projects like this, don't you?" he shrugged.
Fiction book (2001) -
Even once you know the truth, they get off on still not telling you everything.
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Even once you know the truth, they get off on still not telling you everything.
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I think also bear in mind at the same time, some people get off on the idea of their other half cut cold.
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I think because he still gets off on people like me who, you know, wanted to hear him out.
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Now, some people try to avoid all that, but you sort of, you get off on the abuse.
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There's a small group of guys who just get off on paying people for sex.
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He gets off on it, that's what these creeps do.
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She gets off on watching romantic movies that feature dramatic love stories.
Antonyms
How Aroused
- Offensive
115
6.7
- NSFW
35
9.6
- NSFW
152
7.2
- NSFW
5
3.2
Surface Forms
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 for sexual pleasure comes from the idea of being carried away into a strong feeling or release, like stepping 'off' into pleasure. So it means 'to feel sexual excitement or pleasure'.