Wiktionary
a. 1 Shortened by sawing. 2 (label en slang) Short (as though something that should be there isn't).
WordNet
Usage examples of "sawed-off".
She half expected monsters to grab her and rip out her bowels, or a sawed-off shotgun to be stuck in her face followed by being duct-taped to a stacking chair.
Knife in the groin chills just as good as a sawed-off in the mouth, Major.
Two had sawed-off scatterguns of uncertain vintage slung from their shoulders.
At all times this sawed-off, unflamboyant man knew exactly where his affairs were at.
The contents of the package slidbackward onto the floor then, and Everett reflected that harmless drunks do not usually carry sawed-off automatic shotguns in Christmas packages with false ends.
Most of the brownshirts were scrawny bantamweights, but they were packing firepower grande: sawed-offs, tommmys, .
There was Aunt Lavaca and the sheriff of Chawed Ear with ten men, and they all p'inted sawed-off shotguns at me.
One man in each team carried a sawed-off, autoloading shotgun, and the other carried demolition equipment.
He found dildoes, whips, spiked dog collars, amyl nitrite ampules, twelve jars of K-Y Jelly, a bag of marijuana, a brass-studded motorcycle jacket, a sawed-off shotgun, nine rolls of Benzedrine, a Nazi armband, oil paintings depicting all-male sodomy and soixante-neuf and a snapshot of Icepick Tony Iannone and a college boy nude cheek-to-cheek.
With its tail curled, the dead monitor lizard is roughly the length of a sawed-off fungo bat, and stout enough to require a firm two-handed swing.
The lanky guy starts to tell us some yarn when a dog begins to howl out back and we look that way and the broad slips a sawed-off 12-gauge out of the newspapers and shows it to us.
The black man wore a knit cap and a long navy peacoat-and carried a semiautomatic sawed-off shot gun.
Sandecker set the sawed-off base of an eight-inch shell casing form a naval gun in front of him as an ashtray and lit up a cigar.
The customer capitulated, wrote a check, and left the shop in high glee, carrying a potty chair with sawed-off legs.
For thousands of years his people have survived on alertness: waiting for Mongols to come galloping over the horizon, waiting for repeat offenders to swing sawed-off shotguns across their check-out counters.