jet off

verb

To go by airplane to a destination.

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Meanings

verbjet off (third-person singular simple present jets off, present participle jetting off, simple past and past participle jetted off)

present singular third person jets off · participle present jetting off · participle past jetted off · past jetted off

  1. intransitiveTo go by airplane to a destination.

    By then the summer surge was already dwindling, as travellers switched to the roads or jetted off to beach resorts abroad.

    2025 July 9, Richard Foster, “Summer specials and holiday hotspots”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 60
  2. intransitiveTo depart hurriedly.

    “Clown Without Pity,” as the segment is called, opens with Homer forgetting Bart’s birthday and jetting off at the last minute (or rather considerably after the last minute) to pick him up a present.

    2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 15 Aug 2012
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jet off,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jet%20off.

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