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Push off

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To go away; to get lost. colloquial, imperative, intransitive, often

    "I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term."

  2. 2
    to commit a foul by pushing against an opponent to both accelerate more quickly and push the opponent in the opposite direction. intransitive
  3. 3
    To delay, postpone, put off, push back. transitive

    "Far from precipitating that event therefore he pushed it off until the very last moment, when, in fact, there was no alternative left him."

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