sawed-off
See also: sawed off
English
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Adjective
editsawed-off (not comparable)
- Shortened by sawing.
- The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
- (slang) Short, as though truncated.
- He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.
Noun
editsawed-off (plural sawed-offs)
- (slang, US) A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
Synonyms
edit- (short barrel shotgun):
- (UK) sawn-off