Definitions for cut-in

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cut-in cut-in

Spelling: [kuht-in]

IPA: /ˈkʌtˌɪn/

Cut-In is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in cut-in (-cintu).

Definitions for cut-in

noun

1. Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:
2. Radio and Television. a commercial or other announcement inserted by a local station into a network broadcast.
3. the act of cutting in, as on a dancing couple.

Origin of cut-in

First recorded in 1880-85; noun use of verb phrase cut in

Examples for cut-in

"They're worse than plays, the most o' them," was the Wife's cut-in.

But instead of commencing at once to cut-in, Captain Count gave orders to pile on all sail and keep her away up the Straits.

With this wiring layout, any number of batteries from one to ten may be cut-in by means of the switches.

Just after we started to cut-in a boat appeared alongside with six Maories and half-breeds on board.

But Lucy, being a man of energy, soon rigged a jury-mast out of its wreck, and set to work to cut-in his whales.

This is only a sort of 'cut-in' effect, anyhow—a preliminary to the grand performance that is to come later.

A cut-in head is set in a panel, with or without rule, after the second or third line of the first paragraph.