tear-off

[ tair-awf, -of ]

adjective
  1. designed to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank.

Origin of tear-off

1
First recorded in 1885–90; adj., noun use of verb phrase tear off

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British Dictionary definitions for tear off

tear off

/ (tɛə) /


verb
  1. (tr) to separate by tearing

  2. (intr, adverb) to rush away; hurry

  1. (tr, adverb) to produce in a hurry; do quickly and carelessly: to tear off a letter

  2. tear someone off a strip British informal to reprimand or rebuke someone forcibly

adjectivetear-off
  1. (of paper, etc) produced in a roll or block and marked with perforations so that one section at a time can be torn off

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Other Idioms and Phrases with tear-off

tear-off

Produce hurriedly and casually, as in He tore off a poem a day for an entire month.

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