To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.
To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.
Of a horse, to eject its rider.
Alternative form of throw-off.
Throw off points were first introduced in England , and are used very generally at coal sidings , private sidings etc.
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