tear-off
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
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British Dictionary definitions for tear off
/ (tɛə) /
(tr) to separate by tearing
(intr, adverb) to rush away; hurry
(tr, adverb) to produce in a hurry; do quickly and carelessly: to tear off a letter
tear someone off a strip British informal to reprimand or rebuke someone forcibly
(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
Produce hurriedly and casually, as in He tore off a poem a day for an entire month.
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