dash off

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dash off (third-person singular simple present dashes off, present participle dashing off, simple past and past participle dashed off)

1. (intransitive) To leave a place quickly or briefly.

   I have to dash off to the store, but I'll be back soon.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To write quickly or informally.

   Let me dash off a quick note.

   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 139:

     In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the "Dee" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time.