Usually means: To discard, confuse, or disorient.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word throw-off:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. throw-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. throw-off, throw-off: Collins English Dictionary
  3. throw-off: Wordnik
  4. throw-off: Wiktionary
  5. Throw-off: Dictionary.com
  6. Throw-off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. throw-off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Throw-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. throw-off: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Throw-off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw-off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (throw-off)

noun:  (UK) A start in a hunt or a race.
noun:  A race in which a contestant is paid to deliberately lose.
noun:  A control that engages or disengages part of the mechanism on a device without having to turn the device off.
noun:  (sports) A throw taken to resume play, such as after a goal or at the start of a period.
noun:  (accounting) Income minus expenses and depreciation (before tax).
noun:  (by extension) A discount on a debt or invoice due to a problem with the asset being paid for.
noun:  The act of flinging or throwing something off.
noun:  Something that is flung or thrown off.
noun:  The deflection of a projectile at an angle.
noun:  Something that has been discarded; a castoff.
noun:  A red herring; something intended to throw people off.
noun:  Something that is done, made, or said informally, on the side, or off-the-cuff.
noun:  A byproduct, spinoff, or incidental creation.

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