cuts
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cuts
- plural of cut
- 1922, "The Bride's Cookery Primer", Good Housekeeping, volume 74, page 66:
- Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.
Noun edit
cuts pl (plural only)
- (Australia, New Zealand, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.
- 1995, Bill Marsh, Ape: Old Yanconian Daze, page 110:
- ‘I′ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.
Meat was taken off to the staff room and given the cuts.
- 2001, Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town[1], page 55:
- He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn′t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.
- 2008, Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate[2], page 250:
- My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts.
Verb edit
cuts
- third-person singular simple present indicative of cut