1
as in to stop
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
knock it off!
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2
as in to abandon
to stop doing (something) permanently
decided it was time to knock off telling fantastic fibs about her family background
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as in to subtract
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
a proposal to knock 10 cents off the gasoline tax
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as in to rob
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
Bonnie and Clyde coped with the Great Depression by knocking off banks
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5
as in to murder
to put to death deliberately
various assassins have tried to knock off the dictator over the years
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Recent Examples of knock off
Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Democrats may take a serious shot at knocking off Sens. Joni Ernst (R) in Iowa and John Cornyn (R) in Texas, but both states are reliably Republican.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Dan Alexander, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
That said, House of Villains is a knockoff Big Brother.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Girls basketball Ontario Christian avenged its only defeat by knocking off Archbishop Mitty on Saturday.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Democrats may take a serious shot at knocking off Sens. Joni Ernst (R) in Iowa and John Cornyn (R) in Texas, but both states are reliably Republican.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
Lutnick, meanwhile, moved on, finding another company like Trump’s, Rumble, which had a MAGA-friendly knockoff of YouTube instead of Twitter.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
That said, House of Villains is a knockoff Big Brother.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knock off
Verb
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Facebook’s recent announcement to stop fact-checking posts is an ominous signal.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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The tentative nature of the detection didn’t stop Liang Fu of MIT and Constantin Schrade of Louisiana State University from trying to explain it.—
Charlie Wood,
WIRED,
12 Jan. 2025
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Gentle' Earlier this week, a dog and her four newborn puppies were found abandoned at the side of a highway close to where the wildfires were raging.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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It had been abandoned but the girl, Blessing Aoci, was nowhere to be found.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Kansas City Star,
17 Jan. 2025
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After subtracting average Social Security income from the annual expenditures, GOBankingRates divided the remaining amount by 4%, following a common rule of thumb for safely drawing down retirement savings.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
19 Jan. 2025
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Using the most recent data available, both factors were calculated by subtracting the values assigned to Black and white people for a certain metric.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Jan. 2025
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Together, the unlikely duo plan to rob the World Diamond Center in Nice, France — a story point that Gudegast would’ve preferred to keep under wraps.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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According to the filing, around 15-20 people armed with rifles and handguns kidnapped the pair on Dec. 16 and took them to a vacant apartment where they were tied up, questioned, robbed, assaulted and menaced.—
Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
10 Jan. 2025
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California For Subscribers The Mexican Mafia Tapes: Secret recordings reveal greed, betrayal — and a deal with the feds Sept. 4, 2024 Stinson had already been serving a life sentence for murdering a drug dealer in 1979.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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The GoFundMe established this week singles out her 5-year-old son as needing special attention after seeing his mom get murdered.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
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The boycott tanked the beer brand’s sales and unleashed a wave of smaller copycat boycotts against companies who engaged in marketing outreach to the LGBTQ communities or voiced commitments to DEI.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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In the hours after the New Orleans attack, San Jose police dispatched several more officers to the Christmas in the Park event to guard against any potential copycats, said San Jose assistant police chief Brian Shab.—
Jakob Rodgers,
The Mercury News,
3 Jan. 2025
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One of my favorite coffee shops, Cafe De Leche, which had the most peaceful sunny patio — perfect for reading and catching up with a friend — ceased to exist.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Production has ceased on Season 2 of the Big Talk Studios series about an 18th-century highway robber, putting a cast and crew of hundreds out of work with nothing to show for their efforts.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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The report also found that although cases of lung cancer declined overall from 2012 to 2021, the decrease was slower in women — most likely because women were slower to take up heavy smoking and slower to quit, said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer for the American Cancer Society.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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In the case of lung cancer, which is predominantly driven by tobacco use, the shift in cancer incidence may be due to changes in peak tobacco use among women, who were more likely to start smoking later in life and were slower to quit, ACS chief scientific officer William Dahut said.—
Tina Reed,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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