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    Meaning: without
    Example: sushi without wasabi

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FORMATION:
Ｎ + ぬきで・ぬきに
Ｎ1 + ぬきの + Ｎ2


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• 全部食べないとデザート抜きですよ。   [ex #298]
You can't have dessert until you finish your meal.

• その話はぬきにして飲みましょう.   [ex #3279]
Let's drink without getting into that topic.

• 昼飯ぬきで仕事をした.   [ex #3280]
I continued work without having lunch.

• 私は、塩ぬきのフライドポテトを注文した。   [ex #5929]
I ordered french fries without salt.

• 冗談は抜きにして   [ex #6404]
all joking aside

• お世辞抜きに、君の日本語は本当にうまいよ。   [ex #6616]
I am not flattering you. Your Japanese is really good.

• 冗談抜きで、ちょっと大切な相談があるんです。   [ex #6615]
Seriously, I have something important to discuss with you.

• コーヒーは、砂糖ぬきでお願いします。   [ex #6883]
Coffee please, without sugar.

• 冗談ぬきでまじめに考えてください。   [ex #6884]
Without jokes, please think about it seriously.

• 朝食ぬきで学校に行く子供が多いです。   [ex #6910]
There are a lot of children who to go school without breakfast.

• 堅苦しいあいさつ抜きでやりましょう。   [ex #8386]
Let`s do away with the formalities.

• コーヒー抜きで働くのは苦痛であった。   [ex #8387]
It was hard to work without cofee.

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• nuku    (ぬく and ぬき formed from the same word but different usage.)
• kotonaku    (Note that
  Noun + nuki
  Verb (jishokei) + kotonaku)
• nashi
• nomi    (nomi= only / nuki=without)

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• Lit: "If you don't eat everything you do without dessert!" (contributor: Amatuka)
  
• ex#3276 彼女はコートなしで出かけました。would be better. (contributor: anon)
  
• I agree. One would not say コートぬきで出かける.
  (contributor: bamboo4)
  
• whats the difference tween nuki and nashi? someone explained it nuki is usually used when you something is unexpectedly without. eg chips without salt. correct?
  Also, nuki seems more formal (contributor: dc)
  
• moved the coat example to nashi (contributor: dc)
  
• nuki 抜き→抜く here mean to omit or remove somthing. It would't be always unexpectedly happen. When you order わさび抜きのすし sushi without wasabi、you know it.
  nashi 無し→無い means something is not there.
  They are sometimes used in a similar way like
  寝坊したから、朝ごはんなしだった。／ 朝ごはん抜きだった。
  As I slept over, I had no breakfast. / I skipped breakfast. (contributor: Miki)
  
• ah, ↑　not slept over, I want to change it to 'as I woke up late.' (contributor: Miki)
  
• woke up late = overslept.
  slept over = stayed out at someone else's house
  ちょっと違うね！ (contributor: anon)
  
• Is this the same nuki used in babanuki? (contributor: tigert)
  
• Yes, it is, tigert-san−＞婆抜き。 (contributor: karekano)
  
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