peel+off

  • 11peel off — Synonyms and related words: barnstorm, carry away, come apart, come off, come undone, come unstuck, control, copilot, crack up, disintegrate, drive, fall off, fall to pieces, fly, fly apart, get loose, give way, go to pieces, manipulate, pilot,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 12peel off — {v.} To dive away from a group of airplanes in a flight formation; bring one plane down from a group. * /As the group neared the home base, pilot after pilot peeled off for a landing./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 13peel off — {v.} To dive away from a group of airplanes in a flight formation; bring one plane down from a group. * /As the group neared the home base, pilot after pilot peeled off for a landing./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 14peel\ off — v To dive away from a group of airplanes in a flight formation; bring one plane down from a group. As the group neared the home base, pilot after pilot peeled off for a landing …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 15peel off — to move away quickly. The first of three attack jets suddenly peeled off to the right …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 16peel off — intransitive verb Date: 1941 1. to veer away from an airplane formation especially for diving or landing 2. depart, leave …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 17peel off — A maneuver performed in formation, in which aircraft successively roll away from a straight and level flight, a dive, or a climb. This maneuver can be used to enter the landing pattern, and even to get into a different formation …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 18peel off —  Break away from a formation …

    A concise dictionary of English slang

  • 19Peel — Peel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peeled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peeling}.] [F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 20peel — peel1 [pēl] vt. [ME pilien, peolien < OE * pilian < L pilare, to make bald < pilus, hair: see PILE2] to cut away or strip off (the rind, skin, covering, surface, etc.) of (anything); pare vi. 1. to shed skin, bark, etc. 2. to come off in …

    English World dictionary