See also: sawn off

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Noun

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sawn-off (plural sawn-offs)

  1. A sawn-off shotgun.

Adjective

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sawn-off (not comparable)

  1. Of a long-barrelled firearm, having had the stock sawn off.
    • 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 38:
      He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two.