cork off

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cork off (third-person singular simple present corks off, present participle corking off, simple past and past participle corked off)

(US, slang) To fall asleep.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 183:
  ‘I'm going to sleep on the major's bed,’ Bonello said. ‘I'm going to sleep where the old man corks off.’