单词 | tear-off |
释义 | tear-off[ tair-awf, -of ] / ˈtɛərˌɔf, -ˌɒf / adjectivedesigned to be easily removed by tearing, usually along a perforated line: a sales letter with a tear-off order blank. Origin of tear-offFirst recorded in 1885–90; adj., noun use of verb phrase tear off Words nearby tear-offtearing, tear into, tear it, tearjerker, tearless, tear-off, tear one's hair, tearoom, tea rose, tear-out, tears Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tear-off
British Dictionary definitions for tear-offtear off / (tɛə) / verb(tr) to separate by tearing (intr, adverb) to rush away; hurry (tr, adverb) to produce in a hurry; do quickly and carelesslyto tear off a letter tear someone off a strip British informal to reprimand or rebuke someone forcibly adjective tear-off(of paper, etc) produced in a roll or block and marked with perforations so that one section at a time can be torn off Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with tear-offtear off Produce hurriedly and casually, as in He tore off a poem a day for an entire month. Leave in a hurry, as in She tore off to the store because it was about to close. [c. 1900] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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