Usually means: Depart quickly, often with something.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. make off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make off: Merriam-Webster
  3. make off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. make off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. make off: Vocabulary.com
  6. make off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. make off: Wiktionary
  8. make off: Dictionary.com
  9. make off: FreeDictionary.org
  10. make off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. make off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make off: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make off: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make off)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To exit or depart; to run away.
▸ verb:  To tie off, fix down or terminate the end of a rope, cable or thread.

Similar:
make away, make off with, take off, run off, go off, walk off, come off, ride off, make one's exit, get out, more...

Opposite:
return, stay, remain, linger, stick around

Phrases:
make off with, to make off, make fun off, willing to make money off others, more...

Adjectives:
off, away, put off, gone, alight, quit, cut out, offn, departed, runaway, out

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Similar:
make away, make off with, take off, run off, go off, walk off, come off, ride off, make one's exit, get out, more...

Opposite:
return, stay, remain, linger, stick around

Phrases:
make off with, to make off, make fun off, willing to make money off others, more...

Adjectives:
off, away, put off, gone, alight, quit, cut out, offn, departed, runaway, out



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