Wiktionary
vb. 1 to extract the cream or creamy part from something 2 to separate (the best part of something from the regular part) 3 To earn a percentage of a profit.
WordNet
Usage examples of "cream off".
Wolf went into the men's room to wash the vestiges of the cold cream off his face.
Unless you weren't really trying to cream off some extra FirstSide currency.
He wiped a smudge of ice cream off my chin, and with his spoon he scooped up a blob that had landed on my T-shirt.
But she had not wiped all the cream off her hands after she'd patted it on her wound because, as she'd told Severin, it softened her skin.
He found himself praying as he washed the antiseptic-smelling cream off his legs, his arms and armpits, his groin.
There was silence for awhile, and then Annie put her spoon down, wiped a mixture of chocolate syrup and melting ice-cream off her chin with the back of her hand, and said pleasantly: 'Tell me the rest.
Not surprisingly, the pump does not work: the barber has to remove it from the container and wipe the cream off the plastic pipe as in the days of childhood.
Shannon shrieked, then wiped the whipped cream off and flung it back at Anna.
Teenie took the black-jowled man's handkerchief and wiped the last of the ice cream off her hands.
It goes without saying all servants cream off a proportion of all housekeeping money, all foods, all drinks, all cleaning materials, all everything, however rich or poor, of course with the employers' full knowledge and approval providing it's kept to the customary level-how else can he pay them so little if they can't make extra on the side?
He had a fistful of napkins and was still wiping whipped cream off his face.