stop off

verb

stopped off; stopping off; stops off

informal

: to go or stay somewhere briefly while traveling to another place

I'll stop off (at the store) to pick up some milk.

She is stopping off in Miami to visit a friend.

Examples of stop off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Many visitors walked by the hotel and would stop off at its bars and restaurants. — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026

The stories related to the staging of this first edition have become somewhat legendary, particularly the European entrants travelling together by ship across the Atlantic Ocean, then stopping off to collect the Brazil squad en route. — Michael Cox, New York Times, 23 July 2026

Shrouded in lush gardens, and a mere five-minute drive away (and only a 10-minute walk to the Limegrove Shopping Center), this is a more casual, chill stay, with a beach bar lunch at Harolds worth stopping off for. — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026

Ghana goalie Benjamin Asare briefly kept it a tie game on a diving stop off the top of his hand that sent the ball over the net but failed only a minute later to stop Vlašić. — CBS News, 27 June 2026

Rhymes for stop off

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