The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), v. i.
To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
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To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.
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To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone.
--Pope. To make a stroke with a whip.
To interfere, as a horse.
To move or make off quickly. [Colloq.]
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To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt. To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field. To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; -- from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. [Colloq.] To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly. To cut up.
To play pranks. [Colloq.]
To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. [Slang.] ``When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis.''
--Thackeray.
Usage examples of "to cut and run".
That can easily happen, you know, when you're an old man with a shaky wrist and a cloudy eye, too stiff in the joints even to cut and run.
I mean, even in disguise, you never know - I might have to cut and run, and I'd rather have two sound pins for that, what?
It was like walking with a badly wound up clockwork doll as we descended to the street, but once we were out in the sunshine and the chattering Broadway crowds she became easier, possibly because I showed no tendency to cut and run or bawl for a copper.
When the numbers start moving into the neighborhood of five to one against you, it's time to cut and run, I always say.
We are now faced with one of the biggest threats that mankind has ever faced-and you want to cut and run.
That was where Tarma and Kethry left their real gear, the things they would truly need if they had to cut and run, and between Warrl and the horses, it would be worth a person's life to touch it.
That was where Tarma and Kethry left their real gear, the things they would truly need if they had to cut and run, and between Warri and the horses, it would be worth a person's life to touch it.