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cut-off

Word definitions for cut-off in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cut-offs are usually made from leather or denim jackets with their sleeves removed, or cut very short, and often adorned with patches, badges and painted artwork that display motorcycle club affiliations known as colors , or alternatively band names, political ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cut-off \Cut"-off`\ (k[u^]t"[o^]f`; 115), n. That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road. (Mach.) The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN date ▪ The cut-off date for registration with a share information office or share shop is July 2. point ▪ However, if you are the proud parent of more valuable Koi fry, where is the cut-off point for outdoor survival? ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having had shirt sleeves or pantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end. n. (alternative spelling of cutoff English)

Usage examples of cut-off.

When that is the case, there is a cut-off, the individual is thrown back on himself, and he is in prime shape for that psychotic break-away that will turn him into either an essential schizophrenic in a padded cell, or a paranoid screaming slogans at large, in a bughouse without walls.

Their cut-off screams but blended with the hellish a cappella and, above it all, crowing exultantly, skirled the war pipes of the Horseclans.

With an effort of will she got to her feet, hating the fact that he was seeing her barefoot, in a grubby sweat-soaked T-shirt and cut-off jeans.

She took a shower, washed her hair and blew it dry, put on makeup, and pulled on a pair of cut-off jeans, a lime-green T-shirt, and Keds before returning to check on Sara again.

Smooth muscles played along her slender limbs as she moved, obscured only by a pair of cut-off breeches and an improvised halter top.

I expected, and her manner did subtly alter, not to one of unfriendliness, but to a cut-off of intimacy.

You go frontways a way, covering the rear half, then you are cut off from further progress frontwise by a cross wall which separates the front of that floor from the rear well, a flight of 7 descending steps, commencing off this barrier a short distance, carries you down, by half a dozen feet or so, to where a short landing of a few feet brings you to the base of equal ascending stairs, 7 in number, and which bring you right back up again to the front side of that cut-off wall.

She heard the torch fall, heard his high, cut-off scream as the globs enveloped him.

It took weeks of constantly pummeling these cut-off units before they would surrender, and in every case there was little sign of heavy casualties from the air strikes, demonstrating once again that committed and disciplined troops can withstand even sustained air campaigns if they are properly dug in.

In the cut-off world of big bikes, long runs and classy rumbles, this new, state-sanctioned stratification made the Hell's Angels very big.

Their cut-off screams but blended with the hellish a cappella and, above it all, crowing exultantly, skirled the war pipes of the Horseclans.

Some experiments were made by immersing cut-off leaves in solutions of different strengths.

Then, one night, while at an interstate travel plaza, she noticed a young girl dressed in a tank top and cut-off jeans going from rig to rig, soliciting the truckers for sex.

As the Dodge cut-off left the Chisholm Trail some ten miles above the Indian trading-post, the next morning we waved good-bye to the old cattle trace and turned on a northwest angle.