Usually means: Remove quickly by pulling apart.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word tear off:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. tear off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tear-off, tear off: Merriam-Webster
  3. tear-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tear-off, tear-off, tear off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tear off: Vocabulary.com
  6. tear-off: Wordnik
  7. tear off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tear off: Wiktionary
  9. tear-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tear-off, tear off: Dictionary.com
  11. tear off: Rhymezone
  12. tear off: FreeDictionary.org
  13. tear off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. tear-off, tear off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tear off: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear off: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tear off, tear off, tear off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roofing Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See tear_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tear off)

verb:  (transitive) To rip away from; to pull a piece from forcibly.
verb:  (intransitive) To become detached by tearing or ripping.
verb:  (intransitive) To leave or depart rapidly.
noun:  Alternative form of tear-off. [A strip or sheet of paper, plastic film, etc., that is designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.]

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