tee off
verb
teed off; teeing off; tees off
intransitive verb
1
: to drive from a tee
2
: begin, start
3
: to hit hard
4
: to make an angry denunciation —often used with on
Word History
First Known Use
1895, in the meaning defined at sense 1
tees off
verb
as in vituperates
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- vituperates
- angers
- rants
- rages
- vents
- snarls
- storms
- sputters
- fulminates
- flares (up)
- raves
- snaps
- blows up
- bristles
- flips (out)
- steams
- foams
- flares (out)
- fumes
- glowers
- warms
- smolders
- glares
- sizzles
- seethes
- smoulders
- bursts
- burns
- flashes
- enflames
- inflames
- explodes
- maddens
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- calms (down)
- simmers down
- cools (off or down)
- quiets (down)
- relaxes
- chills out
- hushes
- fivepence
- fivepences
- fivepenny morris
- fivepins
- fiver
- fivers
- fives
- fivescore
- fivesome
- fivesomes
- fivespots
- fivest
- fivestones
- FIW
- fix
- fix (someone) with
- fix it
- fix on
- fix on/upon
- fix one's eyes on
- fix one's eyes upon
- fix one's eyes/gaze/stare on/upon
- fix one's gaze on
- fix one's gaze upon
- fix one's hopes on