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haul off

vb. 1 (context idiomatic nautical English) To alter course so as to get farther away from an object. 2 (context idiomatic English) To leave. 3 (context idiomatic informal English) To draw back the arm in order to punch.

WordNet
haul off

v. take away by means of a vehicle; "They carted off the old furniture" [syn: cart off, cart away, haul away]

Usage examples of "haul off".

What do they care if we haul off a busted data center and some sheets?

She was bent low down, peering at me, in no position at all to haul off at me again.

Randy has had plenty of time to disabuse himself of this fallacy (namely that their airplane-avoidance is dictated by financial constraints) and to draw the real reason out of them after they have dropped Amy's U-Haul off near SFO and begun to caravan northwards in the Acura and the jacked-up, thundering Impala.

If I was to haul off and go to the mills, it might be hell to pay, coming and going.

Well, the ships battered away for two hours and more, and by the end of that time Fortitude had sixty-two men killed and wounded, three guns dismounted, her mainmast shot through and through, her other masts wounded, and the hot shot had set her on fire, so she had to haul off, damned lucky not to have run aground.

That bag, that long black bag not so different in shape and size from the kind people used to haul off things they no longer wanted, that bag reminded her much too forcibly that it wasn't a person in the pond, it wasn't a woman, it was only a body that wouldn't suffer from the indignity of being taken away in a big piece of plastic.

Or he could haul off out of range and wait for the Frenchman to sink, even if he did not bolt for the shore.

The spear misses its target but strikes an Achaean named Leucus in the groin even as Leucus is busy helping Odysseus haul off the corpse of another Trojan captain.

I see people and places and things that I say good-bye to a long time ago, and it feels so good that after a while I haul off and bust out crying.

If he had said it, Sharon thought she'd just haul off and belt him one.