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Coined by editor and linguist Brianne Hughes in the 2010s, as cutthroat is an example of the class of compound words. Compare cranberry morpheme, eggcorn, Hobson-Jobson, mondegreen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cutthroat compound
Today it means: A compound word formed of a transitive verb and a noun; an (usually exocentric) agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound. Full definition →