to defeat or kill someone
to eat or drink something until it is finished
Afterward, at the girl's insistence, they left the village and stopped off at the water hole to polish off a few beers.
The climb up to the front door nearly polished me off.
They'd soon polish off any chicks that were left unattended.
Well, it didn’t take us long to polish off the ice cream.
polishes off
polishing off
polished off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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