sag off

Verb

idiomatic

(idiomatic) To skive, to not attend school when required to do so. / (idiomatic, basketball or lacrosse) To back off from an opponent against whom one is defending.

Japanese Meaning

学校や職場などで義務がある時に、うっかり出席しない、サボること / ディフェンスの際、相手選手に対して身を引いて退くこと

What is this buttons?

She decided to sag off class and spend the afternoon at the park with her friends.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は授業をサボって、午後を友達と公園で過ごすことにした。

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Sense（1）

(idiomatic) To skive, to not attend school when required to do so.

I was in the third year at school and I was sagging off with a few of my mates. We were on a building site and two of us got arrested and given a caution.

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Sense（2）

(idiomatic, basketball or lacrosse) To back off from an opponent against whom one is defending.

The defender playing the man with the ball meets him at the perimeter. The other five defenders will "sag off"their men at varying distances, which are determined by the location of the offensive players. The defender can sag only to the point where he can effectively guard his man if he were to receive the ball.

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Sense（3）

(idiomatic, nautical) To move too far leeward when sailing on the wind.

The more the backstay is tightened, the less the headstay will sag off to leeward, forming a rigid and more efficient arc along the luff of the genoa while beating to weather.

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Sense（4）

(idiomatic, stock market) To fall in share price.

That was considered to be largely in sympathy with the course of the wheat market and a willingness on the part of crushers to permit quotations to sag off before according fresh support.

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