dash off

present singular third person dashes off · participle present dashing off · participle past dashed off · past dashed off

1. intransitiveTo leave a place quickly or briefly.

   I have to dash off to the store, but I'll be back soon.

2. idiomatictransitiveTo write quickly or informally.

   Let me dash off a quick note.

   1 more example

   In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the "Dee" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time.

   1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 139

   Synonyms: scribble off