rack off
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rack off (third-person singular simple present racks off, present participle racking off, simple past and past participle racked off)
- (Australia, informal, often imperative) To go away; to sod off.
- Synonyms: get stuffed, piss off
- 2002, Lydia Laube, Llama for Lunch, published 2010, unnumbered page:
- The gorgeous mad Argentinian who came flying in like a whirlwind before racking off until the next day told me that my face is Argentinian. I hope that′s good.
- 2005, Dan Crowley, Undercover Prop, page 164:
- He came back at me with more trash talk and I said, ‘Rack off, mate. If you can′t talk sensibly to me, then scram.’
- 2008, Catherine Deveny, Say When, page 83:
- Like many who travel abroad, I′m constantly consumed by hatred of Australians. Loud drunken bogans whose nasal accents cut through the humid Phuket air like a chainsaw: “Jesus Chroist, Aaron, just rack off, I’ve had a gutful.”
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rack, off.
- 1824, Thomas Greene Fessenden, The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 89:
- They do not, however, make use of their cider-spirit till they have racked off their cider, about the first of January.