Word info

hit off

Verb

Meaning

hit off (third-person singular simple present hits off, present participle hitting off, simple past and past participle hit off)

(transitive, dated) To describe with quick characteristic strokes.
to hit off a speaker

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Finally the edge is retouched: small flakes are hit off with a bone or wood soft hammer to sharpen or resharpen it. Source: Internet

Ironically, given the cloud of suspicion that surrounded Bonds, the tying home run was hit off a pitcher who'd been suspended by baseball in 2005 for steroid use. citation He was walked in his next at bat and eventually scored on a fielder's choice. Source: Internet

Veeck made a deal with Osborn that he could line up his best nine hitters, rotating them in from their positions in the field, and Veeck agreed to pay ten dollars to any of them who get a clean hit off of Paige. Source: Internet

This also puts him in fourth place in the LG ICC Best-Ever ODI bowling ratings. citation In 2006, Muralitharan had the second (now third) highest number of runs (99) hit off him in a One Day International Innings. Source: Internet

The key to the deal is getting Allen’s $4.35 million cap hit off the books to potentially keep Pietrangelo in the fold. Source: Internet

While there is fall damage in the game, getting hit off of a motorcycle and sent flying into the air generally results in a soft landing as though nothing happened. Source: Internet

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