sawed-off
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sawed-off
adjective
- Shortened by sawing. The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
- Short, as though truncated. 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.
noun sawed-offs
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A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
When I'm called off, I got a sawed-off / Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off
Similar: sawn-off
Talk about this word "sawed-off." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sawed-off. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sawed-off. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sawed-off "sawed-off." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sawed-off.
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@misc{sawed_off_2026,
title = {sawed-off},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sawed-off},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
