# knock off

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To halt one's work or other activity.
2. To kill.
3. To kill.
4. To remove, as a discount or estimate.
5. To rob.
6. To make a copy of, as of a design.
7. To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
8. To have sex with (a woman).
9. To accomplish hastily.
10. To remove (something or someone) by hitting.

## Etymology
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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/knock-off