Usually means: Cause to lose balance, focus.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word throw off:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. throw off: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. throw-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. throw-off, throw-off, throw off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. throw off: Vocabulary.com
  5. throw-off: Wordnik
  6. throw-off, throw off: Wiktionary
  7. Throw-off, throw off: Dictionary.com
  8. Throw-off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. throw-off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. throw off: Rhymezone
  11. Throw-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. throw-off, throw off: Free Dictionary
  13. throw off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Throw-off, throw off: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw off: Medical dictionary

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

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

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Throw Off: Backgammon
  2. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Throw off: Sports Definitions

(Note: See throw_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (throw off)

verb:  (idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
verb:  (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
verb:  (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider.
verb:  To fling away.
verb:  To expel, reject, or renounce.
verb:  To split off.
verb:  To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
verb:  To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To remove (clothing) haphazardly and tossing it on the floor.
verb:  (slang, Australia) To insult or verbally abuse (someone).
verb:  (backgammon) Synonym of bear off
noun:  Alternative form of throw-off [(UK) A start in a hunt or a race.]

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