Meaning

• To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.

  "Get off your chair and help me."

• To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.

  "Could you please get the book off the top shelf for me?"

• To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.

  "Don't tickle me – get off!"

• To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).

• To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.

  "Can you get off the phone, please? I need to use it urgently."

• To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).

  "Let's get off the interstate at exit 70. No, let's get off at the very next exit."

• To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).

• (possibly obsolete) To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip).

• To leave one's job as scheduled or with permission.

  "If I can get off early tomorrow, I'll give you a ride home."

• To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.

  "She managed to get a week off in March to go to Paris."

• To acquire (something) from (someone).

• To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.

  "The vandal got off easy, with only a fine."

• To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.

  "She could've faced jail time, but her talented lawyer got her off with only a fine."

• To (write and) send (something); to discharge.

  "She intended to get a letter off to her sister first thing that morning."

• To utter.

  "to get off a joke"

• To make (someone) fall asleep.

  "He couldn't get the infant off until nearly two in the morning."

• To fall asleep.

  "If I wake up during the night, I cannot get off again."

• To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.

• To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.

  "It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off."

• To kiss; to smooch.

  "I'd like to get off with him after the party."

• To get high (on a drug).

• (especially in an interrogative sentence) To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).

  "Where do you get off talking to me like that?"

• Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.