slice off

phrasal verb

sliced off; slicing off; slices off

: to remove (something) by cutting : to cut off (something) with a sharp object (such as a knife)

Slice off the excess fat after you cook the steak.

—often used figuratively

The salesperson sliced 10 percent off the cost of the car.

Examples of slice off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The math of those slices off the point totals was merciless: Should a big prep draw a field of less than five, a 50-point second place was reduced to a 25-point place showing, which can mean the difference between getting a stall in the Churchill gate and not getting to race. —Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025

For such projects, Van den Heever added to her knife set the kind of skinny, snaky blade used in Spain for carving paper-thin slices off a classic jamón ibérico. —Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025

But universities are not starfish, flopping about helplessly on a beach while a cruel child slices off their arms one by one. —Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025

Then a laser slices off one 1-mm thick die after another from the wafer, with the lateral dimensions of each die approximating the dimensions of the final battery. —Ashok Lahiri, IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2017

Rhymes for slice off

• cerenkov
• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff