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Cut out

adj, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose. idiomatic

    "I'm not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having been cut out wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.

    "Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster."

  2. 2
    cease operating wordnet
  3. 3
    To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something). informal, transitive

    "He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon."

  4. 4
    delete or remove wordnet
  5. 5
    To remove; to omit. transitive

    "If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits."

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  1. 6
    intercept (a player) wordnet
  2. 7
    To oust; to replace. transitive

    "[…] cut him out in the affections of his lady-love!"

  3. 8
    cut off and stop wordnet
  4. 9
    To separate (an animal) from the herd. Australia, New-Zealand, US

    "There was little fear that the navigator of the captured Osprey, the man who had lived in Chile and "cut out" cattle on the Carrum Plains, would prove lacking in knowledge of riding, seamanship, or Spanish customs."

  5. 10
    strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out wordnet
  6. 11
    To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected. intransitive

    "It was around then that the engine suddenly cut out."

  7. 12
    form and create by cutting out wordnet
  8. 13
    To leave suddenly. intransitive

    "He must have cut out of the party."

  9. 14
    To arrange or prepare.

    "He has his work cut out for him."

  10. 15
    To intercept. transitive

    "As lax as the visitors' defence was, Blackpool's backline was solid. In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post."

  11. 16
    To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
  12. 17
    To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines. Australia, intransitive, slang

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