knock off
174 synonyms found
- abscind
- accomplish
- achieve
- ad-lib
- amputate
- annihilate
- attain
- ban
- bat out
- bob
- breathe
- bump off
- buy it
- call a strike
- call it quits
- cash in
- cease
- check in
- check out
- clip
- close down
- close shop
- coauthor
- collaborate
- compass
- compose
- consummate
- cook up
- croak
- crop
- cull
- cut away
- cut off
- cut out
- dash off
- deal with
- discontinue
- discount
- dispatch
- dispose of
- do
- do anyhow
- do by halves
- do carelessly
- do in
- do offhand
- do the job
- do the trick
- dock
- draw back
- drop off
- dust off
- editorialize
- effectuate
- eliminate
- enact
- enucleate
- eradicate
- except
- excise
- exclude
- extemporize
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fake
- fake up
- formulate
- free-lance
- fudge up
- fulfill
- ghost
- ghostwrite
- give over
- go on strike
- go west
- halt
- have it
- improvisate
- improvise
- indite
- jury-rig
- kick in
- kick off
- kick the bucket
- knock out
- knock over
- knock together
- lash up
- lay off
- leave off
- loot
- lop
- make up
- manage
- mutilate
- nip
- novelize
- pamphleteer
- pare
- pass out
- patch together
- patch up
- peg out
- perform
- pick out
- pipe off
- play by ear
- plunder
- polish off
- pop off
- pound out
- prepare
- produce
- prune
- put away
- ransack
- realize
- recess
- relieve
- rifle
- rob
- root out
- rough out
- roughcast
- roughhew
- rule out
- scenarize
- scrap the plan
- secure
- set apart
- set aside
- shave
- shear
- shove off
- shut down
- shut up shop
- slap up
- stamp out
- step off
- stick up
- stop for breath
- strike
- strike off
- strip
- strip off
- subtract
- surcease
- take a break
- take a recess
- take a rest
- take away
- take care of
- take five
- take off
- take out
- take ten
- take time out
- throw off
- throw on paper
- throw together
- toss off
- toss out
- toss together
- trifle with
- truncate
- turn the trick
- vamp
- walk out
- whip up
- whomp up
- wing it
- wipe out
- work out
- write
Definition
(n) :
an imitation, especially one of poorer quality
"this spreadsheet program is a knock off of Visicalc."
(v) :
to bump or hit so that something falls off; to quit; stop doing work or other activity. The term originated from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest
"don't knock off the ornament with your clumsy arms."