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Princeton's WordNet

  1. keep off, avoidverb

    refrain from certain foods or beverages

    "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"

  2. keep off, stay offverb

    refrain from entering or walking onto

    "keep off the grass"; "stay off the premises"

Wiktionary

  1. keep offverb

    To stay or cause to stay at a distance (from).

Wikipedia

  1. Keep Off

    Keep Off (Dutch: Afblijven) is a 2006 Dutch children's film, based on the children's novel Afblijven by Carry Slee. The film, much like the book, explores drug abuse by adolescents and the negative effects it has on their lives. The film received a Golden Film (100,000 visitors).

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  1. keep off

    "Keep off" is a phrase used to instruct or warn someone to not go or step onto a particular area or surface; or to refrain from consuming, using, or discussing a certain topic or thing.

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  1. Keep Off

    Keep Off is a 2006 Dutch children's film, based on the children's novel Afblijven by Carry Slee. The film, much like the book, explores drug abuse by adolescents and the negative effects it has on their lives. The film received a Golden Film.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. keep off

    To fall to a distance from the shore, or a ship, &c. (See OFFING.)

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. keep off

    To deter an enemy from approaching close to the lines or fortifications, by inducing him to suspect a superior force, an ambuscade, or a mine, or by openly galling his advanced posts in such a manner as to beat him in detail. Infantry may keep off cavalry by hot firing, or by a bristling hedge of bayonets, when in square.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of keep off in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of keep off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of keep off in a Sentence

  1. Daniel Webster:

    Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.


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