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Undercut   /ˈəndərkˌət/   Listen
Undercut

verb
(past & past part. undercut; pres. part. undercutting)
1.
Sell cheaper than one's competition.  Synonym: undersell.
2.
Cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief.
3.
Cut away the underpart of.
4.
Strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot.
5.
Cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall.
noun
1.
The material removed by a cut made underneath.
2.
The tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column.  Synonym: tenderloin.
3.
A notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall.
4.
(sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball.  Synonym: cut.
5.
A cut made underneath to remove material.





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"Undercut" Quotes from Famous Books



... only now I'm Doc Surface instead of Doc Queed." After that everything had been all right. Buck had answered very much after the fashion of the young men of the Mercury, and then rushed off to arrange for the interment, and also to find for Doc Surface lodgings somewhere which heavily undercut Mrs. Paynter's ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... made in the mounds near Granite Mountain; but a tortuous little stream has undercut several of them, thus making vertical sections as in the case of the mound at Hunter's, near Farmington. In some mounds only a small portion near the margin has been removed; in others the erosion has progressed to such an extent that observations were possible at varying distances, to and ...
— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke
... so smartly dressed that, in England, he would have been called a "nut." What was the American equivalent for a nut, she did not know. He had a hawk-nosed profile which might have been effective had not his undercut jaw stuck out aggressively, suggesting extreme, hectoring obstinacy, ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... mercury, uranium, natural gas, and electricity. Following independence Kyrgyzstan was progressive in carrying out market reforms, such as an improved regulatory system and land reform, but political instability during 2005-06 has undercut the investment climate. Kyrgyzstan was the first CIS country to be accepted into the World Trade Organization. Much of the government's stock in enterprises has been sold. Drops in production had been severe after the breakup ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... he can reel off a number of places which must be avoided when their haricot mutton is on. He knows when the boiled beef is most a la mode at Wilkinson's, when the pudding at the "Cheshire Cheese" is just so, and when the undercut at Simpson's is most to be desired. You meet him, say, on Tuesday, and, in course of conversation, you wonder where to lunch. "Tuesday," he will murmur, "Tuesday. What d'you fancy? It's fowl-and-bacon day at 'The Mitre.' That's always good. Or it's stewed-steak day ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke


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