push off

verb

1. Alsopush out to move into open water, as by being cast off from a mooring
2. informal.
   intr to go away; leave

Idioms and Phrases

Also, shove off . Leave, set out, depart, as in The patrol pushed off before dawn , or It's time to shove off . This usage alludes to the literal meaning of a person in a boat pushing against the bank or dock to move away from the shore. [ Colloquial ; early 1900s]

Example Sentences

Then get against the side of the tank, and placing the ball ten or twelve feet away, try to secure it with one hand on a push-off.

From Project Gutenberg

Here we made the “tinkering” and the “first push-off” shots.

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