off of
No longer touching
Off of is a casual variant of off, adding of without changing the meaning: Get off of me, I got it off of eBay.
The construction is common in American speech but considered redundant in formal writing, where off alone suffices: Get off me.
Both forms are grammatically standard; off of simply sounds more conversational.
- peelOuter fruit layer
- outsideBeyond the boundary
- dislodgeForce from position
- liftMechanism for vertical transport
- overAbove or exceeding
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