pawn off

verb

pawned off; pawning off; pawns off

transitive verb

: to get rid of or pass off usually by deception : palm off

Examples of pawn off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Police reportedly searched through records of precious metal sales in the county and eventually discovered that Weckesser pawned off the ring at a shop in Mechanicsburg, Penn. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

They're not being coached by scumbag parents like at ballparks where the dads pawn off their kids to stand along a rail in order for dad to add to HIS collection. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026

No one is immune to the lampooning, even the dazed and confused sons and daughters who get sidelined and pawned off due to their parents’ ambitions, neuroses and desires to achieve greatness. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026

In 1847, Henri-Clément Sanson, who preferred gambling to guillotining, pawned off the family apparatus. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for pawn off

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