When one person or team passes responsibility or something physical to another person or team, often used in football or business transitions.
Compound of 'hand' + 'off' (away), originally used in football terminology in the early 1900s to describe the literal passing of the ball from one player to another.
In American football, the handoff is so important that coaches drill it thousands of times—a fumbled handoff has lost more games than almost any other single mistake!
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