sawn-off
Britishadjective
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(prenominal) (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
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informal (of a person) small in stature
Example Sentences
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Norrie's first experience of tennis was hitting a ball on the driveway of his family home in New Zealand with a sawn-off squash racquet.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2022
The other cadets carried a Zambian flag and a staff in the shape of “a crested eagle on a dinner plate atop a sawn-off broomstick.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2017
Her bare bones apartment—a sawn-off Victorian bathtub, a packing-crate coffee table, and a molting zebra rug—were the very essence of charm.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2015
This film is based on the 2005 One Shot, written in a sawn-off post-Hemingway style that dispenses with verbs wherever possible.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2012
He has a little, desolate holding up in the bush of Ontario, a hole chopped out of the forest and studded all over with sawn-off fir-stumps.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss
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