Find the word definition

Wiktionary
cut out
  1. (context idiomatic English) Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose. v

  2. 1 (&lit cut out English) To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever 2 (context transitive English) To refrain from (doing something, using something et

  3. ), to stop/cease (doing something). 3 (context transitive English) To remove, omit. 4 (context transitive English) To oust, to replace. 5 (context transitive English) To separate from a her

  4. 6 (context intransitive English) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected. 7 (context intransitive English) To leave suddenly. 8 (context usually in passive English) To arrang

  5. 9 (context transitive English) To intercept

WordNet
cut out

adj. having been cut out; "the cut-out pieces of the dress"

cut out
  1. v. delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article"

  2. form and create by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a piece of paper in the shape of a guitar"

  3. cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van" [syn: cut off]

  4. strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list" [syn: scratch out]

  5. intercept (a player) [syn: cut down]

  6. cease operating; "The pump suddenly cut out"

Usage examples of "cut out".

Rather illegal, I suppose, but it suddenly seemed like such an easy way to cut out a lot of red tape and heel-cooling.

He was a great serpentlike head, seeming to have been cut out of a cliff.