to cut
- verb
- /kʌt/
- Informal
- We decided to cut through the park to save time on our way to the meeting.
- cut across national boundaries
- cut across traditional boundaries
It cuts across in this way, cuts across the top like this.
- It cuts across in this way, cuts across the top like this.
- I unmake my pastor the night. So cut to fast speedy clip.
Examples
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Oh, it looks like there's an alley I can cut through.
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We just have to cut through this, and the workshop won't be far.
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You follow that path and then cut toward the road.
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Cut over the 3rd Street bridge!
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That's where we cut through the fence.
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I'm real glad about that, but right now, I gotta cut to the chase 'cause there's not much time.
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Bedia sees his work as having the potential to cut through national, class, and religious boundaries.
Academic text (2001) -
Television, radio, and print media cut across geographical and socioeconomic lines throughout Puerto Rico.
Academic text (1991) -
We rode the Staten Island ferry, cutting two foamy lines in the swollen harbor.
Fiction book (1990) -
To reach the beach faster, we can cut across the field instead of taking the long road.
Synonyms
To change direction suddenly
To turn suddenly to avoid hitting something
To go straight across a place, for example through land or a crowd
To slide or turn sideways suddenly, often out of control
Cut or move quickly and smoothly through air and water
To go through a place like a park to make a shorter route
To cut across a place in a straight line and divide it
Move a sharp object into something to cut it
To move quickly and smoothly through water or snow
Move forward quickly and forcefully as if cutting through the air
Antonyms
Idioms
Deliberately do something that hurts you more than the person you want to punish
- Informal
To become independent from your parents and live on your own
- Informal
To become independent from parents and make your own decisions
- Australian
To criticize someone who stands out to make them seem less successful
- Informal
To check something carefully before you do it to avoid mistakes
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To do something quickly or cheaply by skipping important steps so the result is lower quality
- Informal
To have fun and act without control, or to remove someone from their job
- Informal
To leave very little time before something happens and risk being late
- Informal
To make someone less proud by showing they are not as good as they think
- Jargon
To make a message clear so people notice it despite distractions
Make speech or writing clearer by removing complicated management language
Compounds
- Specialized
A sudden change between two film shots that makes action or time seem to skip
- Specialized
A short announcement that interrupts a program to give local news or alerts
An event when shops sell goods at much lower prices for a short time to clear old stock
- Specialized
A sudden cut between shots in a film that shows time passing or makes the action jump
How Direct
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cut meaning to move quickly through or across something is like 'slicing' through the longer route, so to cut across is to take a shorter way.