pinch off
verb1
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:
- Derived terms
- pinch one off
- Related terms
- pincers, pinch a loaf, pinchers