intransitive. To leave off, cease, stop. Now archaic.

In imperative used as an injunction to pause, arrest one's course, not to go on doing something. Hence often = give me time to consider, decide…

The solid substance left after mineral coal has been deprived by dry distillation of its volatile… as a substance: no plural. Slang phr. (imperative)…

intransitive. colloquial. In imperative. Stop it! leave me alone! Cf. to lay off 8 at lay, v.1 phrasal verbs.

intransitive. To call ‘whoa’ as a command to a horse to stop or stand still. Occasionally also: to call out ‘whoa‘ as a general interjection…

To cease to keep up, or have to do with; to have done with; to leave off or let alone; to break off acquaintance or association with. drop it! (collo…

imperative (slang) = to cut out at phrasal verbs (see to cut out 1 at phrasal verbs below). Colloquial phrase cut the cackle (see cackle, n. 3a).

transitive. slang (chiefly British). To give up, abandon (an activity). Formerly also intransitive: †to throw up or abandon one's work, to give up…

intransitive. colloquial. To stop doing or saying (something considered to be foolish or ridiculous). Chiefly imperative, expressing incredulity or…

colloquial. Without adverb, = to chuck out at sense 2b or up. In passive, to be acquitted or released. Also, to chuck it (see sense 2b).

knock it off!: leave off! stop it!

transitive. To cut so as to take out; to excise, extract, or extirpate by cutting (something material). Frequently figurative in recent…

‘Beware!’ ‘Look out!’ Also occasionally as a children's truce term.

To stop (something objectionable); to ‘give over’; esp. in break it down: stop it, ‘come off it’. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.

slang. to shove it: to depart; to desist from a course of action. Usually in imperative, as an expression of contemptuous dismissal. Cf. stick, v.1…

transitive. British slang. In imperative. leave it out!: stop it! esp. stop talking nonsense! come off it!