Definition of "throw-off" []

• A start in a hunt or a race. (noun)
• A throw taken from the centre line which resumes play after each goal and at the start of each period. (noun)

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• "First, he plagerizes, then admits it with the throw-off statement that they are just words."
• ""We've never had a throw-off, but we have pretty similar arms," Carson says."
• "We got rid of King George III during the Revolutionary War, and now history is repeating itself, and Americans need to again stand in solidarity and throw-off the yoke of oppression."