sawn-off

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sawn-off

noun sawn-offs

  1. A sawn-off shotgun.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of a long-barrelled firearm, having had the stock sawn off. He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two.

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@misc{sawn_off_2026,
  title = {sawn-off},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sawn-off},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}