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Also, bugger off. Go away, as in Bug off before I call the police. Both terms are often used as an imperative, as in the example, and the variant is heard more in Britain than in America. [Slang; c. 1900] For a synonym, see buzz off.

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Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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The men stood around bug-eyed and stared incredulously—all but High-Pockets.
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Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
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In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
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There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.
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