longcut meaning (humorous): definition, etymology and quotations

longcut

noun

Etymology From long + cut, modelled on shortcut.

Humorous, Informal, Often A path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.

I got to work twenty-three minutes later than when I take the longcut.1986, Andrew A. Rooney, Word for Word, G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 55:
The shortcut proved, as most of them seem to do, to be a "longcut"1994, Gary Paulson, Winterdance, Harcourt Brace, page 69:

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It's no shortcut, it's a "longcut."2006, Kathy Morey, Hawaii Trails: Walks, Strolls and Treks on the Big Island, Wilderness Press, page 245: