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Chip off   /tʃɪp ɔf/   Listen
Chip off

verb
1.
Break off (a piece from a whole).  Synonyms: break away, break off, chip, come off.






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"Chip off" Quotes from Famous Books



... at low spring-tide to the nearest ledge of rocks, and with a hammer and chisel chip off a few pieces of stone covered with growing sea-weed. Avoid the common and coarser kinds (fuci) which cover the surface of the rocks; for they give out under water a slime which will foul your tank: but choose the more delicate species which fringe the edges of ...
— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley

... of pretended a feverish interest in the day's hunt for fossil cockroaches, and would even of gone out to chip off rocks with a hammer; but not Lydia. She would never pretend to the least infatuation for organic remains, and would, like as not, strike up something frivolous on her ukulele while Oswald was right in the middle ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "Chip off" :   chip, flake, part, separate, peel off, exfoliate, flake off, peel, divide



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