knock off

Meaning

Verb

1. (ambitransitive, slang) To halt one's work or other activity.
2. (slang, transitive) To kill.
3. (broadly, slang, transitive) To kill.
4. (transitive) To remove, as a discount or estimate.
5. (slang, transitive) To rob.
6. (transitive) To make a copy of, as of a design.
7. (transitive) To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
8. (British, slang, transitive, vulgar) To have sex with (a woman).
9. (informal, transitive) To accomplish hastily.
10. To remove (something or someone) by hitting.

Noun

Nonstandard form of knockoff.

Synonyms

knock down

waste

stop

🛑

finish off

do in

beat down

toss off

quit

cease

bump off

neutralize

neutralise

dash off

liquidate

cheese

🧀

dispatch

glom

thieve

make away with

fling off

knock out

hook

🪝

scratch off

take off

stop work

cop

👮

kill

🔪🩸👤

rip off

do away with

break

shave

knock over

eliminate

drop

snitch

disturbs

chill out

discontinue

detain

deduct

knock on

call it quits

beat

abrogate

kick

cut off

interrupt

counterfeit

hit

have a rest

Translations

faire tomber

قتل

🔪🩸👤

tuer

🔪🩸👤

Feierabend machen

expédier

supprimer

خصم

توقف عن التدخين

نقص

abschlagen

هزم

descendre

débattre

finir

abbattere

Etymology

In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest.