"dash off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dashes off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dashing off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dashed off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dashed off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "dash off (third-person singular simple present dashes off, present participle dashing off, simple past and past participle dashed off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I have to dash off to the store, but I'll be back soon.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To leave a place quickly or briefly."
      ],
      "id": "en-dash_off-en-verb-dMIvjqf9",
      "links": [
        [
          "quick",
          "quick"
        ],
        [
          "brief",
          "brief"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To leave a place quickly or briefly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Let me dash off a quick note.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 139",
          "text": "In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the \"Dee\" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write quickly or informally."
      ],
      "id": "en-dash_off-en-verb-oriLYCSb",
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write"
        ],
        [
          "quick",
          "quick"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To write quickly or informally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/En-au-dash_off.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dash off"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dashes off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dashing off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dashed off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dashed off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "dash off (third-person singular simple present dashes off, present participle dashing off, simple past and past participle dashed off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I have to dash off to the store, but I'll be back soon.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To leave a place quickly or briefly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quick",
          "quick"
        ],
        [
          "brief",
          "brief"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To leave a place quickly or briefly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Let me dash off a quick note.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 139",
          "text": "In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the \"Dee\" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write quickly or informally."
      ],
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        [
          "write",
          "write"
        ],
        [
          "quick",
          "quick"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To write quickly or informally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "dash off"
}