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Gaff Off 

To blatantly ignore orders from a superior. Most often used by U.S. Marines (typically NCO's and SNCO's) to describe what younger Marines are doing when should be working. First used by a crusty old devil dog in the early 1900's by the name of Clifton Bledsoe Gates. Gates would later become the 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Listen you shitbirds, get off your asses and quit gaffing me off!!!

But Staff Sergeant, I would never gaff off your orders?!?!
Gaff Off by Gunner Brad May 12, 2010
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gaff off 

to procrastinate or otherwise avoid doing work; to be lazy
When are you going to quit gaffing off and file those casreps?
gaff off by Craig 'Pags' Paganucci January 19, 2004

gaff off 

To ignore a person / task.
Where it comes from: A gaff is a long pole with a hook on the end used to land fish or to keep them away (like a shark, for example).
"I'm going to gaff off visiting my grandmother this weekend."
"I was supposed to meet Britney at the movies tonight, but I gaffed her off."
gaff off by PaddyNT April 19, 2006

Splunted off the Gaff

Extremely stoned; high on Grand Daddy Purp; greened-out
I smoked a whole blunt to myself and now I’m absolutely splunted off the gaff.
Splunted off the Gaff by owowman November 10, 2025