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
Thwaites’s riposte was to climb atop a quartet of sawn-off crutches and trot around the lab.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
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
The minaret of the mosque on the south side of town is a sawn-off brick stump, with its loudspeaker dangling loose down its side from an electrical wire.
From Time • Mar. 11, 2011
A foreman leaned on a sawn-off cedar close by, and glanced at Brooke with a little ironical grin when a hum of voices broke out behind them.
From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold
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