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• paper cutter
  paper cutter

  noun

  any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.
• paper-cutter
  paper-cutter

  noun

  a machine for cutting paper, usually a blade mounted over a table on which paper can be aligned

paper cutter

American  

noun

1. any device for cutting or trimming paper, typically a weighted, powered, or spring-hinged blade mounted on or over a ruled board or table on which many sheets of paper may be aligned for cutting at one time.

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paper-cutter British  

noun

1. a machine for cutting paper, usually a blade mounted over a table on which paper can be aligned

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Other Word Forms

• paper-cutting
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of paper cutter

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

“If I can’t buy that new paper cutter that costs $200,000, how are you going to do that?”

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2022

Wildes headed to a paper cutter at the other end of Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in St. Paul and began slicing his picture into 1-inch strips.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2018

Another Times photographer, Alan Berner, remembers Mr. Liddell cutting chicken wire for a home project on the photo department’s large paper cutter.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2014

Reston’s Molly O’Boyle is particularly fond of the sound of a tabletop paper cutter doing its job.

From Washington Post

I peek into the bag at my feet: a paper cutter, white card stock, and a tin of forty-eight colored pencils, twelve more than the set I have.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord