to get off at
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1.9
- phrasal verb
:
bajarse en
- Three young men and a woman get off at the same stop.
- get off at the stop
Yeah, our dog once popped on the Green Line and got off at Park Street.
- Yeah, our dog once popped on the Green Line and got off at Park Street.
Examples
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Hey, listen, I'm just gonna get off at the next stop.
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I'll get off at the next station.
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Pay up or get off at the next stop.
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Look, we should, um, get off at the next stop - and go back to the building.
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I will not get off at the fourth stop; I will get off at the second stop.
Fiction book (1996) -
I think you need to get off at your next exit.
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I got off at the wrong stop, and I walked home.
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She must have got off at the wrong stop.
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After a few stops, they got off the subway at Porte d'Ivry.
Fiction book (1997) -
She decided to get off at the next bus stop to check her map.
Synonyms
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1.0
Leave a place or situation
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4.5
To get off a horse, bicycle, or vehicle
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3.1
Get off a bus or leave a call quickly
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to leave a vehicle at a particular stop' is directly compositional: 'get' (move/arrive/change state) + 'off' (away from/on to the outside) yields 'disembark', and 'at' simply marks the location. This motion verb + particle + preposition pattern is a common, predictable construction in English (and parallels exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Get off at comes from the simple picture of stepping down from a bus or train at a named stop, where to get off is to leave the vehicle and 'at' shows the place. So it means 'to leave a vehicle at a particular stop'.