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push off

verb

Meaning

  • To go away; to get lost.

  • To commit a foul by pushing against an opponent to both accelerate more quickly and push the opponent in the opposite direction.

  • To delay, postpone, put off, push back.

    "1977 March 9, “Crim-code issue pushes off vote on medicaid repeal veto”, in The Kingman Daily Miner, page 7."