tear-off

noun

Etymology

Deverbal from tear off.

1
A strip or sheet of paper, plastic film, etc., that is designed to be removed by tearing…
A strip or sheet of paper, plastic film, etc., that is designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.
- My visor was covered in mud, and I had used up all the tear-offs.
2
A pull-down menu that can be detached from its parent menu bar and dragged around the…
A pull-down menu that can be detached from its parent menu bar and dragged around the screen.
- Tear-offs are rarely found in modern interfaces, though, so typically you'll want to disable the tear-off feature by default.
3
A COM (Component Object Model) interface that is instantiated only when explicitly…
A COM (Component Object Model) interface that is instantiated only when explicitly requested.
- 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; […]
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1. 4
  Designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.
  - a tear-off strip, a tear-off protector

No curated loop yet for tear-off. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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