knock off

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Definition

  1. Verb (Transitive):

    • To stop doing something, to cease an activity: Used as an imperative to tell someone to stop a bothersome action.
    • To produce something, especially writing, quickly and with little effort: To compose or create something hastily.
    • To reduce the price of something: To lower the cost or value.
    • To steal something: To take something without permission.
    • To murder someone, especially to eliminate a threat: To kill, often in a criminal context.

  2. Verb (Intransitive):

    • To finish work for the day: To stop working, typically at the end of a work shift.
Usage Examples
  • Verb (Transitive - Stop):
    • The kids were making too much noise, so their mother told them to knock it off.
  • Verb (Transitive - Produce quickly):
    • I need to knock off a quick email before the meeting.
  • Verb (Transitive - Reduce price):
    • The store knocked 20% off all winter coats.
  • Verb (Transitive - Steal):
    • Someone knocked off my bicycle from the rack.
  • Verb (Transitive - Kill):
    • The gang was known to knock off anyone who talked to the police.
  • Verb (Intransitive - Finish work):
    • Let's knock off early today and go for a drink.
Advanced Usage
  • "to knock off for the day": To finish one's workday.
    • We usually knock off for the day around five o'clock.
  • "to knock off a copy": To produce an imitation, often an inferior one.
    • The street vendor was selling watches that knocked off famous brands.
Variants and Related Words
  • Knockoff (noun): An unauthorized copy or imitation, usually of a popular product.
    • That handbag is a cheap knockoff of a designer brand.
Synonyms
  • Stop: Cease, discontinue, quit.
  • Produce quickly: Dash off, jot down, scribble.
  • Reduce price: Discount, mark down.
  • Steal: Pilfer, pinch, snatch, filch.
  • Kill: Liquidate, neutralize, eliminate, assassinate.
  • Finish work: Clock out, leave, call it a day.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Knock about/around: To wander or spend time idly; to discuss informally.
    • We spent the afternoon just knocking about the old town.
    • Let's knock that idea around for a while.
  • Knock back: To drink quickly; to cost someone a lot of money; to shock or surprise.
    • He knocked back his beer in one gulp.
    • The car repairs really knocked me back.
  • Knock down: To demolish; to reduce a price; (at an auction) to sell to the highest bidder.
    • They plan to knock down the old building.
    • I managed to knock him down to fifty dollars.
Related Idioms
  • Knock someone's block off: To hit someone very hard (a threat).
    • If you don't leave my sister alone, I'll knock your block off!
  • Knock it out of the park: To do something exceptionally well.
    • Her presentation was amazing; she really knocked it out of the park.
  • Knock on wood: A superstitious phrase said to avoid bad luck after mentioning good fortune.
    • I haven't been sick all year, knock on wood.
Verb
  1. stop pursuing or acting
    • drop a lawsuit
    • knock it off!
  2. write quickly
    • She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper
    • He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess
  3. take by theft
    • Someone snitched my wallet!
  4. cut the price of
  5. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
    • The mafia liquidated the informer
    • the double agent was neutralized

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