gaff off

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1. 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 [shitbird]s, get off your asses and quit gaffing me off!!! > But Staff Sergeant, I would never gaff off your orders?!?! Source: ecdict

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