step off

English

Verb

step off

  1. (separable) To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.
    He measured the garden by stepping it off.
  2. (African American Vernacular, inseparable) To avoid a conflict; to back down
    You had better step off, man...
  3. (inseparable) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see step,‎ off.
    He stepped off the train.
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