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Sawed-off

adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Shortened by sawing. not-comparable

    "The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal."

  2. 2
    Short, as though truncated. not-comparable, slang

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    shortened wordnet
  2. 2
    well below average height wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun. US, slang

    "When I'm called off, I got a sawed-off / Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off"

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