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verb

Cut v. i. (past & past part. cut; pres. part. cutting)

1.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

2.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. "Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese."

3.

To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. "He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone."

4.

To make a stroke with a whip.

5.

To interfere, as a horse.

6.

To move or make off quickly. (Colloq.)

7.

To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field.

To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. (Colloq.)

To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly.

To cut up.

(a)

To play pranks. (Colloq.)

(b)

To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. (Slang.) "When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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