knock off

Meanings

Noun

• Alternative of knockoff

Verb

• To halt one's work or other activity.
• To kill.
• To remove, as a discount or estimate.
• To rob.
• To make a copy of, as of a design.
• To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
• To have sex with.
• To accomplish hastily.

Related

Similar words

• call it a day, call it a night, down tools
• plagiarize, rip off
• knock out

Origin

• In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be 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.