knock off

Verb

• stop pursuing or acting
  • drop a lawsuit
    
  • knock it off!
    

• write quickly
  • She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper
    
  • He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess
    

• take by theft
  • Someone snitched my wallet!
    

• cut the price of

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
  • The mafia liquidated the informer
    
  • the double agent was neutralized
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  drop , dash off , scratch off , toss off , fling off , hook , snitch , thieve , cop , glom , shave , neutralize , neutralise , liquidate , waste , do in