to go to sleep, especially when you do not intend to
As the scotch took hold of my brain and I started to nod off I fell into a dream.
At her age she ought to have been allowed to nod off in some warm chimney nook.
He even kept a camp bed there for the nights when he was so exhausted he would begin to nod off as he worked.
I drank it - I was feeling sleepy now, and it wouldn't do to nod off in Florence's drawing room.
nods off
nodding off
nodded off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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