hit off

verb

To play the first shot off the fairway.

“to hit off a speaker”

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Meanings

verbhit off (third-person singular simple present hits off, present participle hitting off, simple past and past participle hit off)

present singular third person hits off · participle present hitting off

  1. golfTo play the first shot off the fairway.

    I hit off and drove a beauty 230 metres down the middle[.]

    1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 124
  2. datedtransitiveTo describe with quick characteristic strokes.

    to hit off a speaker

    1 more example

    c. 1652-1654, Dorothy Osborne, letter to William Temple Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life?

  3. transitiveAfrican-American VernacularTo give; to hand over.
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APA

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MLA

“hit off.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hit%20off. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hit off,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hit%20off.

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