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Come off
verb
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Verb
- 1 To become detached.
"One of the wagon wheels came off."
- 2 happen in a particular manner wordnet
- 3 To have some success; to succeed.
"He tried his Chaplin impression, but it didn't really come off."
- 4 break off (a piece from a whole) wordnet
- 5 To have an orgasm. dated, intransitive
"She turned and looked at him. ‘We came off together that time,’ he said. […] ‘Don't people often come off together?’ she asked with naive curiosity."
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- 6 come to be detached wordnet
- 7 To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
"I'm sorry if I came off as condescending; that wasn't my intention."
- 8 To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
"Well that is precisely what I did, and as I had never heard of using gloves and veil in connection with bees I suppose I came off lightly with one sting on the tip of the nose."
- 9 To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.
"It came off as we expected."
- 10 To come away (from a place); to leave.
"The 290 bus route comes off the A316 at Hanworth."
- 11 To finish being printed. obsolete
"This one came off easily."
- 12 To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something). transitive
- 13 To stop playing (music). intransitive
"I had to say, ‘Come off after the second beat, don’t hang on!’ (as per Mahler’s instructions)."
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