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go off

verb as in explode

verb as in leave

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And things do turn violent, sometimes for purposes of training and sometimes because someone just goes off his head.

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For now, though, Lammens can go off on international duty able to reflect on the two significant saves he made.

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Whether it was a serious crash, chimney fire or a cow trapped in a pond, when their pager went off, they were first on the scene.

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"At midnight all the players were woken up by all these fireworks going off right above us."

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Oliver Sipple, a disabled former Marine standing next to her, saw the weapon and deflected her arm just as the gun went off.

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