What does "cutter" mean?
A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
Cutter
/ˈkʌtɚ/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- Grammar: cutter is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: abridger, abstracter, analyzer, ax.
- Usage evidence: Mary made some star-shaped gingerbread cookies using a star-shaped cookie cutter.
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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 […]"
- 18 An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid. obsolete
- 19 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"
- 25 A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist. derogatory
- 26 A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Mary made some star-shaped gingerbread cookies using a star-shaped cookie cutter."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "cutter"?
Common synonyms include: abridger, abstracter, analyzer, ax, baby tooth, bicuspid.
How do you use "cutter" in a sentence?
Mary made some star-shaped gingerbread cookies using a star-shaped cookie cutter.
How do you pronounce "cutter"?
Pronounced /ˈkʌtɚ/.
Etymology
From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.