cream off

Questions about cream off

What does cream off mean?

cream off means "remove from the surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cream off?

Close synonyms include skim, skim off, cream, skim off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cream off a common word?

cream off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.