Meanings
comparative more low-cut · superlative most low-cut
- Cut low, especially (of clothing) so as to reveal part of the breasts.
Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 2921 more example
I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.
2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a low-cut back
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan escollat
- escollatcut low
Chinese Mandarin 低胸
- 低胸 (dīxiōng)cut low
Danish nedringet
- nedringetcut low
French décolleté
- décolletécut low
German tief ausgeschnitten
- tief ausgeschnittencut low
Spanish escotado
- escotadocut low
Cite this entry
low-cut. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-cut
“low-cut.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-cut. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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