Cryptic crossword clue
Takes off   cartoons 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STRIPS

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The straight part
We know that "Takes off/cartoons" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case takes off/cartoons = strips.
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What does STRIPS mean?

STRIPS noun
  1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
  2. (of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
STRIPS verb
  1. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
  2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
  3. To perform a striptease.
  4. To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  5. To remove cargo from (a container).
  6. To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
  7. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  8. To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  9. To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
  10. To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
  11. To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
  12. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
  13. To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
  14. To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  15. To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
  16. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  17. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  18. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  19. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  20. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

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