sawn-off

noun, adj — 2 senses

sawn-off

noun

1

A sawn-off shotgun.

sawn-off

adj

1

Of 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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