popularity - " off of" expressions



It seems there is a relatively recent trend of using expression "〈verb〉 off of":


https://www.google.com/search?q=%22*+off+of%22
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=off+of&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3

Is this really a new trend or my illusion (English is my second language)? Is there some explanation of the two peaks in the Google n-gram popularity plot?


UPDATE: Typo in the first URL corrected.




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