1
as in to stop
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
knock it off!
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2
as in to abandon
to stop doing (something) permanently
decided it was time to knock off telling fantastic fibs about her family background
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3
as in to subtract
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
a proposal to knock 10 cents off the gasoline tax
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4
as in to rob
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
Bonnie and Clyde coped with the Great Depression by knocking off banks
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5
as in to murder
to put to death deliberately
various assassins have tried to knock off the dictator over the years
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Recent Examples of knock off
Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Mike Costa’s group defeated Duxbury, 62-47, on Tuesday to clinch a share before knocking off Scituate 63-33 on Friday night to win the crown outright.
—Matt Feld, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
Charlie Fink, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Ramping up manufacturing capacity will help bring more supply to the market and end the ability of other companies to compound knockoffs.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
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Verb
There are plans to knock off a spouse so two lovers can run off with the money together.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Mike Costa’s group defeated Duxbury, 62-47, on Tuesday to clinch a share before knocking off Scituate 63-33 on Friday night to win the crown outright.
—Matt Feld, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
There were smart glasses everywhere that were knockoffs of Meta’s Ray-Bans, with the primary innovation being the integration of ChatGPT instead of Meta’s Llama models.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Ramping up manufacturing capacity will help bring more supply to the market and end the ability of other companies to compound knockoffs.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knock off
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Outside of suicide, the only way for a terminally ill person in Ohio to hasten their own death is to refuse life-prolonging treatments or to stop eating and drinking.—
Tim Botos,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Retirees who stop working at Full Retirement Age—currently 67—can receive a maximum monthly benefit of $4,018.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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Fortunately for Merz, the unprecedented security situation can be used as political cover to abandon the debt brake, at least for investment in defense.—
Ido Vock,
TIME,
22 Feb. 2025
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Housing inspectors visited rental when kids were living alone At least twice, inspectors visited a Pontiac townhome where the children were allegedly abandoned by their mother, raising questions as to whether the kids could have been found and rescued sooner.—
Gina Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
Verb
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During the processing, the AI combined something that shouldn’t have been combined, or added or subtracted something that shouldn’t have been included.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Average empty seats on each flight route was calculated by subtracting the difference in average seats per flight and average passengers per flight, the firm said.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
15 Feb. 2025
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Domínguez had a chance to unseat Verdugo at the end of last season, but the natural center fielder struggled in left field and didn’t hit much after recovery from UCL surgery and an oblique injury robbed him of minor league reps.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2025
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Some criminal gangs have been robbing trucks making wholesale Ozempic deliveries, Mr. Corrêa dos Santos said.—
Flávia Milhorance,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
Verb
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In 2018, journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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In that case, an unknown person contacted the Sandy Hook tip line to say a friend had access to an AR-15 rifle, had just ordered a bulletproof vest and admired Nikolas Cruz – the gunman who murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, officials said.—
Taylor Romine,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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The private equity firm saw the Chinese government and the life sciences industry making a deliberate effort to evolve from its historical focus on copycat and fast-follower drugs that mimicked leading drugs to creating new chemical matter that China could export to the rest of the world.—
Angelica Peebles,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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Graham inspired a swath of copycats and might have contributed to Reid’s image as a jovial, likable guy as much as Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and all his team’s on-field success.—
Sean Gregory,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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The turmoil that enveloped the federal workforce over the last few days is unlikely to cease anytime soon as the U.S. government’s human resources agency considers how to fulfill Elon Musk ’s demands.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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The news many in the film sector feared over the weekend is coming to pass as Technicolor has made the majority of its UK workforce redundant and the majority of its activities have ceased.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
24 Feb. 2025
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For those who make too much to qualify for state assistance programs but not enough to comfortably pay for childcare costs out of pocket, quitting a job to look after their kids sometimes makes the most financial sense.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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During his confirmation hearings in late January, Kennedy falsely suggested that antidepressants were harder to quit than heroin.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Knock off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knock%20off. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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