whip off

verb

To remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement.

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Meanings

verbwhip off (third-person singular simple present whips off, present participle whipping off, simple past and past participle whipped off)

present singular third person whips off · participle present whipping off · participle past whipped off · past whipped off

  1. transitiveTo remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement.

    If you but aſſiſt me, I'll engage to whip her off to France, and you ſhall never hear more of her.

    1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 45
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    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.

    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

    (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.)

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 489

    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 […]

    2004, Martin Finn, Cocktocock: Tales of Greece

Translations

Irish sciob
  • sciobto remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement
Russian срывать, сбра́сывать
  • срывать (sryvatʹ)to remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement
  • сбра́сывать (sbrásyvatʹ)to remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement
  • стаскивать (staskivatʹ)to remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement
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Chicago

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