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English
Verb
whip off (third-person singular simple present whips off, present participle whipping off, simple past and past participle whipped off)
- (transitive) To remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement.
1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. , London: F Newbery, , →OCLC, Act II, page 45:If you but aſſiſt me, I'll engage to whip her off to France, and you ſhall never hear more of her.
1920 September, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part III, page 230:With a furious energy he jumped from the fence, whipped off his coat, and from its black lining cut with his knife a piece about five inches square.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part II , page 489:(Kitty unpins her hat and sets it down calmly, patting her henna hair. And a prettier, a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen on a whore's shoulders. Lynch puts on her hat. She whips it off.)
2004, Martin Finn, Cocktocock: Tales of Greece:In an instant he had whipped off his shorts. He lay there showing off his long, slender uncut tool. His balls loose and hairy slipped between his legs. His crotch hair was nearly as blond as his head hair […]
Translations
to remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement