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Meaning of sawed-off | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. Shortened by sawing.
    not-comparable
  2. Short, as though truncated.
    not-comparable, slang

Examples

“The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.”
“He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

sawlike sawn-off sawney sawtoothed sawtoothlike saxatile

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