dash off

verb

dashed off; dashing off; dashes off

: to write (something) in a very quick and hurried way

I have just enough time to dash off a letter.

Examples of dash off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

By the second half, Chawni was dashing off video clips of his travels to an editor for editing and posting later. — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 12 June 2026

She was blessed with an unstinting energy and buoyancy that had her dashing off postcards far and wide, answering e-mails with improvised poetry, and cold-calling younger writers to offer encouragement. — Pico Iyer, Air Mail, 2 May 2026

Otherwise, you people might be tempted to dash off a bunch of nasty remarks in the comments section. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 May 2026

The glamorous pair left the building and dashed off in a Cadillac for their honeymoon. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 13 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for dash off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff