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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
cutoffs, cut-offs /ˈkʌtɒfs/ pl n - trousers that have been shortened to calf length or to make shorts
cut•off /ˈkʌtˌɔf, -ˌɑf/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
- an act or instance of cutting off.
- a point serving as the limit beyond which something is no longer possible:We'll start the bargaining at 50%, but 35% is the cutoff; we won't go lower than that.
- a road, passage, etc., that leaves another, usually providing a shortcut:a cutoff from the main highway.
- Clothingcutoffs, [plural] shorts made by cutting the legs off a pair of trousers, esp. jeans:wanted my old jeans to use for making cutoffs.
adj. [before a noun]
- being a limit or ending:the cutoff date for applications.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026cut•off
(kut′ôf′, -of′),USA pronunciation n.
- an act or instance of cutting off.
- something that cuts off.
- a road, passage, etc., that leaves another, usually providing a shortcut:Let's take the cutoff to Baltimore.
- a new and shorter channel formed in a river by the water cutting across a bend in its course.
- a point, time, or stage serving as the limit beyond which something is no longer effective, applicable, or possible.
- Clothing cutoffs, Also, cut′-offs′. shorts made by cutting the legs off a pair of trousers, esp. jeans, above the knees and often leaving the cut edges ragged.
- Business[Accountableing.]a selected point at which records are considered complete for the purpose of settling accounts, taking inventory, etc.
- Sport[Baseball.]an infielder's interception of a ball thrown from the outfield in order to relay it to home plate or keep a base runner from advancing.
- Mechanical Engineering[Mach.]arrest of the steam moving the pistons of an engine, usually occurring before the completion of a stroke.
- Electronics(in a vacuum tube) the minimum grid potential preventing an anode current.
- Rocketrythe termination of propulsion, either by shutting off the propellant flow or by stopping the combustion of the propellant.
adj. - being or constituting the limit or ending:a cutoff date for making changes.
- noun, nominal use of verb, verbal phrase cut off 1735–45
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