sawed-off
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- adjective
- /ˈsɔːdˌɔf/
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recortado
- Bobby raises his sawed-off shotgun and points it at the two old men behind the counter.
- sawed-off shotgun
- sawed-off rifle
- sawed-off barrel
Examples
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The man with the raincoat drops it to reveal a sawed-off shotgun.
Fiction book (2001) -
And Rob pulls a sawed off shotgun out of his jacket, which he carried with him at all times.
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My daddy runs through that door with this sawed-off shotgun.
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Why do you have a sawed-off shotgun?
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In the other hand was the top half of a sawed-off baseball bat.
Fiction book (1990) -
A week ago, a treasury agent was murdered with a sawed-off shotgun while he was working undercover.
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But the manager had been robbed and beaten before and kept a sawed-off shotgun underneath the counter.
Fiction book (1990) -
Dude, you're holding a 12-gauge, double-barrel, sawed-off shotgun.
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That's a double-barreled, sawed-off Ithaca shotgun with a carved pistol grip stock wrapped with adhesive tape.
Fiction book (1990) -
The police found evidence of a crime scene involving a sawed-off shotgun hidden in the bushes.
Synonyms
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Separated by cutting from a larger thing
An object like a gun or stick made shorter by cutting off part
Shortened because a part is cut away or time is limited
Made not as long in time, size, or distance
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
sawed-off = saw off (transparent) = saw + off + ed
Formed from the phrasal verb 'saw off' plus the past-participle suffix '-ed', conveying the literal meaning 'cut off by sawing'.
Etymology
Sawed-off comes from the words saw ('to cut') and off ('remove'), so it literally means 'cut off'. It describes something that has had part of its length cut away, like a sawed-off shotgun, which is why it means shortened by sawing.