hit off
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[edit]hit off (third-person singular simple present hits off, present participle hitting off, simple past and past participle hit off)
- (transitive, dated) To describe with quick characteristic strokes.
- to hit off a speaker
- c. 1652-1654, Dorothy Osborne, letter to William Temple
- Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life?
- (transitive, African-American Vernacular) To give; to hand over.