phrasal verb

• 1Use an oar, boathook, etc. to exert pressure so as to move a boat out from shore or away from another vessel.

  More example sentences

  • ‘we pushed off and rowed out into midstream’

• 2British informal Go away.

  More example sentences

  • ‘I was here first, go on, push off!’
  • ‘I've got to push off and get to work’

  Synonyms

  go away, depart, leave, take oneself off, take off, get out, get out of my sight

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