square off
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square off
verb squares off · squaring off · squared off
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To get ready for a confrontation (debate, argument, fight).
Hey, man, don't square off on me with some bullshit.
Similar: square up · Opposite: stand down
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To increase the boxiness of (a design).
After the aeronautically inspired curvaceous designs of the 1930s and 1940s, many American automotive designs of the 1950s through 1970s were somewhat more squared off.
Opposite: round off
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