cutout
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈkʌtˌaʊt/
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recorte
- To my right, a six-foot-high cutout of Hoagy Carmichael.
We like to use cutouts of actual frames from the podcast, and so we have the angle that's on me, we have the angle that's on Andrew.
- We like to use cutouts of actual frames from the podcast, and so we have the angle that's on me, we have the angle that's on Andrew.
Examples
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Some girls had grandparents who sent them cutouts from papers in other cities.
Fiction book (1991) -
Relax, Justin, it's just a cutout.
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A cutout of a house.
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You know, I have to say, I have never been on a date with someone who has a cardboard cutout of themselves.
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...and I made cardboard cutouts of everybody in the group to sing with them.
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On one wall of the lobby, there were large cardboard cutouts of Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, and Big Bird.
Fiction book (1996) -
A forty-foot cutout of the corporate animated character, Mr. Gumball, towered over Stan, exuding yellow hysteria.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the house are stacks of ping-pong paddles and life-sized cardboard cutouts of Forrest playing ping-pong.
Fiction book (1994) -
The artist displayed a colorful cutout of a bird against the blue sky.
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For the school play, they used a cutout of the sun to decorate the stage.
Synonyms
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3.4
A shape removed from paper or cloth with scissors
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cutout comes from the parts cut and out, meaning 'to cut away'. In pictures, a cutout is what you get when you remove the background and leave only the main subject.