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Cream off   /krim ɔf/   Listen
Cream off

verb
1.
Remove from the surface.  Synonyms: cream, skim, skim off.
2.
Pick the best.  Synonym: skim off.






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"Cream off" Quotes from Famous Books



... can't say I ever did," answered the mate with a relenting smile, "'xcept that time when you skimmed all the cream off the milk and capsized the dish and said the cat done it, although you was slobbered with it from your nose to your toes—but you was a very small fellow at that time, you was, and hadn't got much ballast aboard nor begun to stow ...
— The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands • R.M. Ballantyne



Words linked to "Cream off" :   select, skim off, remove, take, withdraw, take away, pick out, choose



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