cut-offs

/ ˈkʌtɒfs /

plural noun

1. trousers that have been shortened to calf length or to make shorts

Example Sentences

In our day, if you travel by river from the southernmost of these three cut-offs to the northernmost, you go only seventy miles.

From Project Gutenberg

Distances have been shortened by "cut-offs," but the Mississippi displays a decided unwillingness to have its length curtailed.

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The Cambodia, or Mekhong River, flows through it with many bayous or cut-offs.

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The first investigating party under Adairs direction had traversed all the southern cut offs.

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The channel in the lower valley may be improved at certain points by straightening it and judiciously making cut-offs.

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