Pick Off

Synonyms: Pick Off

Crosswords: Pick Off

Rehabilitation client and wife with one day's tomato pick off coast of Beaufort, South Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "pick off": pick off a bird ♦ To pick off. Additional references.

Albanian

qëroj (blanch, clean, clear, cut out, decorticate, dress, finger, Hull, mulct, pare, Peel, pick, pinch, poach, rind, scale, shell, waste, whip, zap), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), këpus (break, depauperate, exhaust, pick, pluck, pull, Tucker), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نتف (pluck, snippet), ‏سلخ (skin, strip), ‏صرع (bring down, bump, cut down, floor, knock down, poleaxe, strike, stun), ‏أصاب (bilge, blast, come, get, hit, infect, inflict, shoot, strike). (various references)

Bulgarian 

откъсвам (break away, break off, dissociate, island, prescind, pull, pull off, rend, rip off, tear away, tear off, tear out, tweak, uproot, win away), застрелвам един по един. (various references)

Czech

otrhat, odstřelovat (snipe), oškubat (pluck). (various references)

Danish

afrivninger. (various references)

Dutch

filmbreuk. (various references)

Finnish

napsia (pick at). (various references)

French

gratter (pick), enlever (pick up), cueillir (pick), arrachement, abattre. (various references)

German

pflücken (cull, gather, pick, pluck, tear off, to gather, to pluck), wegzupfen, Film/abriss, absuchen (comb, pick clean, scan, scour, search, sweep), abschießen (discharge, fire, fire off, kick off, knock out, launch, let off, loose off, shoot down, shoot in, shoot off, to bring down, to launch), abschälen (peel away, peel off, peeling, strip), abknallen (blow away, bump off, shoot down, zap). (various references)

Greek 

ρωγμή (chink, cleft, crack, crevasse, crevice, fissure, rift), σκάσιμο (chap). (various references)

Hungarian

leszed (get away, to clear away, to clear away the things, to disassemble, to gather, to get down, to pick off, to skim), lecsíp (to nip, to pluck off), felvevõ (pick up), érzékelõ elem (pick up). (various references)

Italian

strappo (infringement, jerk, lift, pluck, pull, rip, split, sprain, strain, tear, tug, wrench), cogliere (catch, cull, gather, get, hit, Nick, overtake, pick, pluck, snatch, take), abbattere uno dopo altro. (various references)

Manx

chymsaghey (accumulate, gather, round up, scrape together). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickpay offay

Portuguese

mordiscar (gnaw, nibble), colher (Berry, collect, crop, drag out, garnet, gather, gather a harvest, gather information, harvest, pick, pick up, pluck, pull, reap, reap a harvest, spoon, tear off), arrancamento (lifting). (various references)

Romanian

smulge (carry away, draw out, elicit, extirpate, extort, pull, pull up, rend away, rend off, Rive, snatch, squeeze, tear out, uproot, worm out of, wrest, wring, yank), jumuli (disrobe, fleece, pick, pluck, Rob, shave, shear), împuşca unul dupã altul. (various references)

Russian 

отрывать (break away, disinter, rend, tear, tear away), оборвать (break off, cut short). (various references)

Scottish

faisg (at, beside, by, near, near to, near to it, near: See fagus, nearby, next to, pick off vermin: for root See caisg). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

postreljati, ustreliti (shoot). (various references)

Spanish

quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), matar uno a uno, desgarro (sprain). (various references)

Swedish

plocka bort, skjuta bort (push aside). (various references)

Turkish

sinyâl jeneratörü, koparmak (break, break off, cozen, cut off, deflorate, deflower, dissever, extort, pick, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, take apart, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), bir bir vurmak, alıp götürmek (carry away, come for, lead away, take away, take off, walk away with). (various references)

Ukranian 

убивати (deaden, finish off, homicide, kill, murder, put to death, slay, thug), зривати (pluck, pull down, snatch off, tear down). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pickoff.

-3 letters: coff, coif, fico, foci, pick, pock.

-4 letters: cop, fop, ick, iff, kif, kip, koi, kop, off, pic, poi.

-5 letters: if, of, op, pi.

+1 letter: pickoffs.

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