Meanings
- not comparableShortened by sawing.
The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
- not comparableslangShort, 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.
plural sawed-offs
- USslangA 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
1988, N.W.A. (Ice Cube), "Straight Outta Compton", Straight Outta Compton, 8 Aug 1998Synonyms: sawn-off
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
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