Tear-off

"Tear-off" in a Sentence (4 examples)

My visor was covered in mud, and I had used up all the tear-offs.

Tear-offs are rarely found in modern interfaces, though, so typically you'll want to disable the tear-off feature by default.

This makes tearoffs especially risky for objects that may be accessed remotely. Given all of the potential pitfalls of tearoffs, a logical question might be, "when are tearoffs appropriate?" There is no absolute answer; […]

a tear-off strip, a tear-off protector

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