1
as in to stop
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
knock it off!
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2
as in to abandon
to stop doing (something) permanently
decided it was time to knock off telling fantastic fibs about her family background
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3
as in to subtract
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
a proposal to knock 10 cents off the gasoline tax
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4
as in to rob
to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully
Bonnie and Clyde coped with the Great Depression by knocking off banks
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5
as in to murder
to put to death deliberately
various assassins have tried to knock off the dictator over the years
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Recent Examples of knockoff
Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Mickey head patterns pressed into the backs of official Disney pins go all the way to the edges, while knockoffs may have a border.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 May 2025
Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
In four of those instances, St. John’s Prep has knocked off their Catholic Conference nemesis to claim the hardware.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 14 June 2025
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Verb
Also, knowledge: recognizing an original versus a knockoff.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Mickey head patterns pressed into the backs of official Disney pins go all the way to the edges, while knockoffs may have a border.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 May 2025
Noun
If operators can continue knocking off a few tenths of a percentage point from their quarterly declines, the subscriber base will be down to around 42.7 million by the end of the third quarter of 2025.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 June 2025
In four of those instances, St. John’s Prep has knocked off their Catholic Conference nemesis to claim the hardware.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knockoff
Verb
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The toddler stopped crying about 15 minutes after she had been put down for a nap.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Such as when our yellow Lab Frank couldn’t stop wagging his tail while digging a hole.—
David McGrath,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Retired repos add risk: When maintainers abandon a namespace, attackers can adopt it and push trojan updates.—
Syed Ahmed,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Never desert a blaze: Avoid abandoning any fire without supervision.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
1 July 2025
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Under both the House and Senate versions, taxpayers in the top bracket will have to subtract 2/37th from the value of each dollar deducted over the threshold.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
3 July 2025
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Where surpluses on other players arrive only once their existing book value has been subtracted, for those who have been at a club from a young age there is little or nothing to subtract.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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Three years later, Armando Galarraga didn’t, robbed by a wrong call by first-base umpire Jim Joyce — who owned up to it almost immediately — in the days before instant replay.—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
11 July 2025
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Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was kidnapped, robbed, strangled, and found tied to a tree with her throat slit.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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Set in a fantasy version of early 1900s Japan, the series focuses on the adventures Tanjiro Kamado, an ordinary boy whose peaceful life in the mountains is disrupted when demons murder his family.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
28 June 2025
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Harp, who is raising his orphaned niece, Dell, after her mother is murdered, never reminisces with Dell about his sister; the Antidote and Cleo both do their best not to have meaningful conversations with anyone at all.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2025
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The Copycat Conundrum: When Local Laws Protect Your Competitors Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of international franchising involves dealing with local copycat operations that exploit legal protections designed for domestic businesses.—
Mohaimina Haque,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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But neither the farm bill, nor Indiana's copycat law, specifically mentioned cannabanoid variations Delta 8 and Delta 10.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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Baker's lawsuit was seeking back pay, attorney's fees and an injunction ordering the county to cease behavior that discriminates against minorities and suppresses residents' First Amendment rights.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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The halt of the 2025 CMT Awards ceases the awards show's status as one of the longest-running country music ceremonies; the CMTS began in 1967, coming onto the scene only a year after the ACMs were established in 1966.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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In April alone, 3.2 million Americans quit their jobs.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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To say the quiet part out loud: many athletes have previously felt that choosing to have a child meant having to quit.—
L'Oréal Blackett,
Refinery29,
30 June 2025
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“Knockoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knockoff. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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