tear-off
1 of 2noun
plural -s
: part of a piece of paper intended to be removed by tearing usually along a marked line (as a row of dashes)
tear off
2 of 2transitive verb
: to compose rapidly
tore off a whole play in three weeks
just in time to tear off a letter home
Word History
Etymology
Noun
from the phrase tear off
Transitive verb
tear entry 3
- leaming
- Leamington
- leams
- lean
- lean (on or against)
- lean (toward or towards)
- lean and mean
- lean in
- lean on
- lean on or against
- lean over backward
- lean toward or towards
- lean-to
- lean-tos
- Leander
- leaned
- leaned (on or against)
- leaned (toward or towards)
- leaned in
- leaned on
- leaned on or against
- leaned toward or towards
- leaner
- leaners
- leanest