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pinch off

pinch off verb: to separate (something) from something else, using a pinching motion.

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.
    • Jackie Allen was my friend Phil’s girlfriend, and I pinched her off him, slowly, patiently, over a period of months.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 18

pinch off meaning in Tamil

pinch off in Tamil

நெருக்கித் தவிர்த்தல், நெரிப்பு விடுபடு

Forms of pinch off

third-person singular presentpinches off
present participlepinching off
past participlepinched off
pastpinched off

Words formed from pinch off

Questions about pinch off

What does pinch off mean?
Pinch off means to separate (something) from something else, using a pinching motion.
What is pinch off in Tamil?
Pinch off in Tamil is நெருக்கித் தவிர்த்தல், நெரிப்பு விடுபடு. See Pinch off meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pinch off?
Pinch off is a verb.
What is the past tense of pinch off?
The past tense of pinch off is pinched off.

Words near pinch off in the dictionary

  1. pinch hitters
  2. pinch mode
  3. pinch modes
  4. pinch of salt
  5. pinch of the game
  6. pinch off
  7. pinch one off
  8. pinch out
  9. pinch outs
  10. pinch pennies
  11. pinch point

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinch off (page history and authors); pinch off (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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