bundle off

verb

To send someone away quickly and without fussing.

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Meanings

verbbundle off (third-person singular simple present bundles off, present participle bundling off, simple past and past participle bundled off)

present singular third person bundles off · participle present bundling off · participle past bundled off · past bundled off

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo send someone away quickly and without fussing.

    Her mother came back in and pulled her out into the hallway as if she were bundling her off on a date and whispered urgently to her.

    2006, Elliot Mabeuse, A Game of Dress-up
  2. idiomaticintransitiveTo go somewhere unceremoniously.

    The porpoises gave us one last push and our strange-looking craft bumped gently on a low beach. Then, thanking our lucky stars for a chance to stretch our cramped legs, we all bundled off on to the land—the first land, even though it was floating land, that we had trodden for six weeks.

    1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle/Part 4/Chapter 5
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Chicago

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