Usually means: Disengage or distance oneself physically.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. step-off: Merriam-Webster
  2. step-off: Wordnik
  3. step off: Wiktionary
  4. step-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. step-off, step off: Dictionary.com
  6. Step Off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. step-off, step off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Step off: Seinfeld Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. step off: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. step off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Step off: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (step off)

verb:  (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.
verb:  (African-American Vernacular, inseparable) To avoid a conflict; to back down
verb:  (inseparable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, off.

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