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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.

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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 mod youth subculture of the 1960s prized the glamorous, metropolitan image of scooters, many skinheads and scooterboys viewed their bikes as simply a form of transportation.

While some scooter enthusiasts have focused on the stripped-down look, with just a bare frame and visible engine and mechanical parts, some scooterboys put back almost as much hardware as they had taken off, by adding customized chrome-plated accessories and racks.

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.