(chiefly US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder. / (chiefly UK, idiomatic) To cut class; to play truant.

A payment. / A reward. / A bribe. / (colloquial) A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction. / (baseball) Short for payoff pitch.

(transitive) To turn a switch to the "off" position in order to stop or disable a device. / (idiomatic) To lose interest, and start thinking about something else.

(idiomatic) To quit or cease completely, or to promise to quit, as a bad habit.

(idiomatic) To obtain somebody's permission to skip or cancel an event that one has previously arranged with them.

Alternative form of off base

(transitive) To discard or reject something. / (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.

(intransitive, telephony, Britain) to disconnect at the end of a phone call

Alternative spelling of castoff

Alternative spelling of castoff