file off the serial numbers

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To alter identifiable details in a creative work in order to conceal its origin. idiomatic
    — […] that song belonged to Noisy when he got through filing off the serial numbers and changing the body lines. I heard it again, oh, must have been twenty, twenty-five years later, in a cabaret in Luna City. From Noisy. But he had changed it. Fixed up the scansion, given it a proper rhyme scheme, dolled up the tune.
  2. To alter identifiable details in a creative work in order to conceal its origin.; Especially, to remove the copyrighted elements from an existing work of fan fiction so that it may be commercially published as original fiction. idiomatic,slang
    — For a while now, I've been pottering away at a Star Wars fanfic novella ([URL redacted], if you must know). I've received a few pokes about filing off the serial numbers and trying to sell it as an independent work.

词形变化

files off the serial numbers present,singular,third-person filing off the serial numbers participle,present filed off the serial numbers participle,past filed off the serial numbers past

词汇关系

上位词
pull-to-publish

词源

From the practice of filing the serial numbers off of firearms in order to make their origin and ownership difficult to trace.
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