pinch off

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English

Verb

pinch off (third-person singular simple present pinches off, present participle pinching off, simple past and past participle pinched off)

  1. To separate (something) from something else, using a pinching motion.
    • 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 18:
      Jackie Allen was my friend Phil’s girlfriend, and I pinched her off him, slowly, patiently, over a period of months.

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