get off on something

get off on something
1. in. to get pleasure from something; to become sexually aroused by something.
□ I don’t get off on music anymore.
□ I listen, but I just don’t get off.
2. in. to take a drug and experience a rush. (Drugs.)
□ Max likes to get off, but he’s got his business to run.
□ Tracy likes getting off better than anything else.
3. in. to do well in something.
□ Wayne is getting off on history, much to everyone’s surprise.
□ Bill got off on fixing up his car, and I may let him do mine too.

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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