Doff – raise one's hat as a greeting
(Pronounced dof)
To remember the definition of the word doff, use the following mnemonic:
Do drop off (doff) your hat from your head when you greet someone.
Examples of doff in a sentence
Before he could doff his hat at the busy woman, she hurried by without paying him any attention.
Using his hat to doff, the man bid his family farewell and headed west on his horse.
As he reached to doff his hat at his neighbour, a gust of wind blew and carried it away.
