off v.2
1. (orig. US black) to kill or murder.
Howard Street 217: Slick, Billy-A and Baby Lawrence had offed the New York dope dealer. | ||
Friends of Eddie Coyle 58: They run around all the time saying, ‘Off the pigs’. | ||
Seize the Time 447: Off the Pig means to kill the slave master. It doesn’t mean commit murder. | ||
Fort Apache, The Bronx 46: The shots sounded like firecrackers. ‘She’s offin’ ’em,’ Angel shouted. | ||
Golden Orange (1991) 161: He offs himself with a handgun. | ||
Oz ser. 1 ep. 2 [TV script] Honestly, I don’t know who offed Dino. | ‘Visits’||
You Got Nothing Coming 7: Don’t even think of offing yourself during my shift. | ||
Mad mag. Apr. 19: The lack of Federal standards regarding what kind of gas may be used in offing the creep is tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment. | ||
Viva La Madness 275: How did Jenna feel about Jesus offing her boyfriend? | ||
Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Most pundits think [he] offed my first son, Kevin. | ‘In Savage Freedom’ in||
Happy Mutant Baby Pills 156: I had kind of killed for the woman [...] I’d offed a man in a public toilet. | ||
Glorious Heresies 13: ‘Clean up after your mother offs someone’. | ||
Squeeze Me 69: He got wasted and started bragging how he offed some rich bitch. | ||
Seven Demons 247: [S]he cannot let me get offed here. |
2. (orig. US) of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
On the Yard (2002) 205: The yard said that Jacob ‘Stoneface’ Blake would rather boot a convict in the ass than off his old lady. |
3. (US Und.) to rob, usu. with violence.
Howard Street 19: If Gypsy Pearl didn’t hurry up, he’d be too weak to off that big trick. | ||
Family 188: Some sort of robbery [...] the offed travelers’ checks, the trading in dope. | ||
(con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad. |
4. (US black) to beat up someone.
On the Yard (2002) 198: Cadillac was the ex-heavyweight champ of the joint [...] ‘Offin’s my game, and I pimp a taste. Shoot crap, too.’. | ||
Black Jargon in White America 74: off v. 1. to maul; beat up someone. | ||
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 106: Terms like to fire, to blaze on, to off, or to drive on someone mean just that – to do unto others before they do you. |
5. (US police) to apprehend and arrest someone.
Cop Team 178: We can off him when he gets back. |