do off

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do off (third-person singular simple present does off, present participle doing off, simple past did off, past participle done off)

  1. (obsolete) To take off (clothing).
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
      Than seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I requyre you, do of your helmys, that I may se you.’
    • 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles:
      So she laughed, and did off her other raiment, and slid swiftly into the water, that embraced her body in all its fresh kindness []
  2. (slang) To kill, to bump off