Green’s Dictionary of Slang

get off! excl.

1. a general excl. of disbelief; don’t talk nonsense!

[Scot]J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II 27: Get aff wi’ your Hieland impudence – brazen-faced thief!
[UK]Marvel 12 Nov. 4: Get off! my articles are dazzling the public.
[Ire](con. 1890s) S. O’Casey Pictures in the Hallway 152: Yeh, get off with you! said Dyke viciously.
[Aus]T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 191: Get off yourself. You would have been in it if she would have.
[UK]Galton & Simpson ‘Hancock in Hospital’ Hancock’s Half-Hour [Radio script] Oh get off woman.
[UK]J. Speight ‘I Can Give it Up Anytime I Like’ Till Death Us Do Part [TV script] Gerroff! Philip as Prime Minister – blimey.
[UK]J. Sullivan ‘The Second Time Around’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Get off, there’s no calories in weed-killer!
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Mar.
[UK]Indep. Rev. 13 Aug. 38: I was like, ‘Get off!’ I honestly didn’t believe him.

2. stop it!

[UK]Magnet 20 June 2: Oh, get off!
[US] ‘Whitman College Sl.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 154/1: get off me. ‘Stop criticizing me.’.
[US]E. Hunter ‘Vicious Circle’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 31: Hey, man [...] get off that [i.e. indiscreet speech]. Cool it fast.
[US]J. Brosnan Long Season 158: ‘They’ve got the best lobster you ever tasted and you know it,’ she said. ‘You haven’t been to San Francisco yet, dear girl.’ ‘Get off that, will you, Meat,’ she said.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Fall 4: GET OFF ME – plea to be left alone.

3. (US campus) an expression of admiration.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Oct.
[US]Eble Sl. and Sociability 56: Many phrases formed around get are fixed expressions that show disbelief [...] or admiration (get back, get off, get up).