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shake off

To lose someone who is tracking you
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The police are chasing us! Quick, turn into that side street! We've got to shake them off.

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'shake off':

shake offTo remove by shaking.
shake offTo dissociate oneself from.
shake offTo rid oneself of a malady or its symptoms
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