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Meaning of base off of | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To base on.

US, ditransitive, informal

Examples

“A lot of artists put skits in their records, but they based it off of De La Soul. We didn't base ours off of De La Soul, we based ours off of ours, because we were the first group to actually split up a rap album and not go cut for cut.”
“They wanted something like a '70s thriller, so I based it off of The Man with the Golden Gun poster.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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