sawn-off

adjective

1. prenominal (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
2. informal.
   (of a person) small in stature

Example Sentences

Officers also found a sawn-off shotgun during a search of the property.

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At the house, police found items stolen in the robbery, including watches and wallets, along with ski masks while the sawn-off shotgun was found hidden in a nearby bush which had Harmer's DNA on.

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Responding to reports of a house fire in Rodney Drive, police and firefighters discover two AK-47s; two sawn-off shot guns; a high-powered rifle with a silencer and three pipe bombs.

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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.

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James Holmes, of Lawnmount Crescent in Lisburn, admitted two counts of attempting to murder the couple in their Mill Street home, and of possessing the sawn-off shotgun.

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