"break one off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-break one off.ogg [Australia] Forms: breaks one off [present, singular, third-person], breaking one off [participle, present], broke one off [past], broken one off [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|break<,,broke,broken> one off}} break one off (third-person singular simple present breaks one off, present participle breaking one off, simple past broke one off, past participle broken one off)
  1. (baseball, dated, slang, 1800s) To throw a curve ball. Tags: dated, slang Categories (topical): Baseball

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for break one off meaning in English (1.7kB)

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