keep off

present singular third person keeps off · participle present keeping off · participle past kept off · past kept off

1. ambitransitiveTo stay or cause to stay at a distance (from).

   Please keep off the grass.

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   You keep the dogs off while I go and knock on the door.

   "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.

   1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167