Meaning of Cutthroat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
   countable, uncountable
2. An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
   countable, uncountable
3. A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
   uncountable
4. Ellipsis of cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

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Examples

“The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.”

“Children go through a phase of compound acquisition in which they invent cutthroats spontaneously before dropping the habit again.”

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