Push off

verb

Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo go away; to get lost.

2.verbTo commit a foul by pushing against an opponent to both accelerate more quickly and push the opponent in the opposite direction.

3.verbTo delay, postpone, put off, push back.

"1977 March 9, “Crim-code issue pushes off vote on medicaid repeal veto”, in The Kingman Daily Miner, page 7."

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