Meanings
adjectivesawn-off (not comparable)
- not comparableOf 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.
1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 38
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