"Tip" or "rip" finish

The answer

OFFS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OFFS answer page.

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OFFS

Every other clue in this collection answered by OFFS, most used first.

• Switch positions - used 50 times, most recently in 2019
• Does in - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Rubs out - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
• Does in, mob-style - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Whacks - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Switch settings - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Ices - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Trade-___ (compromises) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Does away with - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Wastes - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Does in, in mob slang - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Ices, mob-style - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Murders, slangily - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Slays, slangily - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Murders, mob-style - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Send-___ (farewells) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Show-__ (flamboyant ones) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Rip - TEAR, used 248 times
• ___ the finish - INAT, used 95 times
• Rip apart - REND, used 74 times
• Tip off - WARN, used 56 times
• Q-tip, e.g. - SWAB, used 54 times
• Tip jar bills - ONES, used 48 times

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