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Answer for the clue "Went on a diet ", 7 letters:
cutdown

Word definitions for cutdown in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cutdown is a customised scooter (usually an Italian Vespa or Lambretta ) with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away. Cutdowns were popular amongst skinheads and scooterboys during the mod revival of the 1970s and 1980s. While the style-obsessed British ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context surgery English) An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it. 2 A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.

Usage examples of cutdown.

Peter Ozal, a third-year surgical resident, performed the ankle cutdown required to access the saphenous vein.

A pacemaker threaded into her heart from a cutdown in her groin restored a heartbeat of sorts, but the prognosis was not good.

She wore a kind of harem dress of silk trousers and brocaded sort of cutdown caftan.

Each horse bore a two-man saddle, with the rear rider armed not with a saber or lance but with a cutdown version of an infantry-dragon.

The rear troopers leaned back, triggering their cutdown infantry-dragons, sending blasts of intolerable heat rolling up the outer face of the wall.

After focusing a bright light on the medial aspect of her ankle, I pulled on the rubber gloves and opened the sterile cutdown tray.

It resembled mine when the medical intern on duty called me at night for help with a cutdown or something else on a private medical patient.

They had a cutdown version of the combat vest that worked with the wet suits.

MA5B, this rifle had a longer barrel and stock, with a cutdown muzzle shroud.