sawed-off meaning: definition, quotations

sawed-off

adj

Shortened by sawing.

The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.

Slang Short, 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.

noun

US, Slang A 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 off1988, N.W.A. (Ice Cube), "Straight Outta Compton", Straight Outta Compton, 8 Aug 1998

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