Usually means: Apply force to move away.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. push off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. push off: Merriam-Webster
  3. push off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. push off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. push-off: Wordnik
  6. push off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. push off: Wiktionary
  8. push off: Dictionary.com
  9. push off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. push off: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Push-off: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (push off)

verb:  (intransitive, colloquial, often imperative) To go away; to get lost.
verb:  (intransitive, basketball) to commit a foul by pushing against an opponent to both accelerate more quickly and push the opponent in the opposite direction.
verb:  (transitive) To delay, postpone, put off, push back.

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