What does "cutter" mean?

A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

What is a synonym for "cutter"?

Common synonyms include: abridger, abstracter, analyzer, ax, baby tooth, bassy.

Cutter

//ˈkʌtɚ// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun

1
A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
"a stone cutter; a die cutter"
2
a cutting implement; a tool for cutting wordnet
3
A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
4
a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop wordnet
5
A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
"a coastguard cutter."

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6
a boat for communication between ship and shore wordnet
7
A foretooth; an incisor.
"the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root"
8
someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) wordnet
9
A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
10
someone who carves the meat wordnet
11
A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
12
someone who cuts or carves stone wordnet
13
A cut fastball.
14
A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon. slang
15
A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh. informal
"After I got out of the mental institution I was looking at t.v. show I was looking it a teenage girl who was a cutter her arm look just like my arm."
16
A surgeon. colloquial, derogatory, humorous, slang
17
An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
"Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]"
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An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid. obsolete
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A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. obsolete
"Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north."
20
A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework. obsolete
21
A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
"Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow."
22
A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
"Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene."
23
A knife. Multicultural-London-English
24
An active child. Maine
"Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back"
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A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist. derogatory
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A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.