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{ "etymology_text": "Possibly an alteration of tick off. Metaphorical use of mechanical verbs (including torque, jack, and grind) with people and their emotions as the direct object is also seen elsewhere, as with for example torque up, grind one's gears, and jacked up.", "forms": [ { "form": "torques off", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "torquing off", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "torqued off", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "torqued off", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "torque off (third-person singular simple present torques off, present participle torquing off, simple past and past participle torqued off)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "American English", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English links with manual fragments", "English multiword terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"", "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2004 March 5, Ray Ratto, “Better off, but at what price?”, in San Francisco Chronicle:", "text": "It is hard to remember a talented player who so comprehensively bothered, annoyed, outraged and just plain torqued off the customers quite like Owens.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To annoy, distress, or anger." ], "links": [ [ "annoy", "annoy" ], [ "distress", "distress" ], [ "anger", "anger" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(chiefly US, transitive, idiomatic) To annoy, distress, or anger." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "cheese off" }, { "word": "pee off" }, { "word": "piss off" }, { "word": "tee off" }, { "word": "tick off" }, { "word": "annoy" } ], "tags": [ "US", "idiomatic", "transitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "En-au-torque off.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/En-au-torque_off.ogg/En-au-torque_off.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/En-au-torque_off.ogg" } ], "word": "torque off" }
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