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cutter-off

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English

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Etymology

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From cut off +‎ -er.

Noun

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cutter-off (plural cutters-off)

  1. (informal) Someone who cuts off someone or something.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114:
      After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.
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