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

She was surrounded by a cadre of cops, many of whom weren’t even born when her son was pushed off a Times Square rooftop while chasing an armed robbery suspect. —Anusha Bayya, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024

But one key effort — Looney’s move to increase the percentage of Medicaid funding spent on direct care — recently got pushed off this year’s agenda. —Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2024

Only a handful of minor injuries were reported, Fell said, with just one person who was in a car at the time of the tornado needing to be transported to a local hospital after the car was pushed off the road. —Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2024

Advertisement While some cities and government agencies have taken impressive steps to protect infrastructure, such as ordering retrofits of older buildings, many others have not, pushing off seismic vulnerabilities that eventually will come to light. —Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined above