sketch v To photograph, esp in phr sketch off.
1920 WALDO 157 To be photographed is to be 'skitched off.' 1924 ENGLAND 109 The word 'sketch,' by the way, they didn't know, save as applied to photography. Drawing was always 'markin' out,' and taking photographs was 'sketchin'off.' 1941 WITHINGTON 142-3 A fisherman suddenly looking up at me in this costume started to laugh, but restrained himself. A second one standing by could not control his expression. His efforts to do so made me burst out laughing, a privilege they both then exercised; and the first exclaimed. 'Oh, Miss, youse ought to be sketched off.' 1973 MOWAT 9 Jacob never got clear of the time the doctor on the S.S. Terra Nova sketched him off with a camera. He kept that picture by him till he died.
