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sawed-off

[ sawd-awf, -of ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

A few feet from where we sit is the sawed-off stump of a third willow.

Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself.

He was the point man in the promotion when Evel Knievel swore he'd soar across Snake River Canyon in a sawed-off rocket ship.

The burglar was a career criminal, just out of prison after robbing a liquor store with a sawed-off shotgun.

Bones and fragments, including teeth and sawed-off jawbones, were discovered after much of his farm was dug up in 2002.

The farm-house stood in the middle of a large yard entered by a stile made of sawed-off logs of graduated heights.

Her aunt had commented on the fact that Clint had taken from the wall a sawed-off shotgun he sometimes carried by his saddle.

One is a tall, lopsided, cock-eyed rooster, an' the other is a hammered-down sawed-off runt.

The little sawed-off sailor in the Villa Marie where I was billetted made coffee for two of us each morning.

George Ashby lay on the ground bound as he had been left, his sawed-off shotgun not far away and his belt full of shells.

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