Definitions for cutaway

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cutaway cut·a·way

Spelling: [kuht-uh-wey]

IPA: /ˈkʌt əˌweɪ/

Cutaway is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in cutaway (aactuwy).

Definitions for cutaway

noun

1. Also called cutaway coat. a man's formal daytime coat having the front portion of the skirt cut away from the waist so as to curve or slope to the tails at the back.
2. Movies, Television. a switch from one scene to another for showing simultaneous or related action, creating suspense, etc. Also called cutaway shot. a shot that abruptly introduces content, scenery, etc., away from the central action.
3. an illustration or scale model having the outer section removed to display the interior.

adjective

1. having a part cut away, as an outer section of something being illustrated so that the inside may be shown.

Origin of cutaway

First recorded in 1835-45; adj., noun use of verb phrase cut away

Examples for cutaway

The wind blew the tails of his cutaway about him like flapping wings.

A cutaway harrow, run shallow, and a roller make the seed-bed.

Then the baker rushed into the room, in a cutaway Sunday coat of the latest style.

The cutaway coat had been the beginning of it all, it seemed.

This Sunday afternoon, in a cutaway coat and high hat, with an English malacca stick, he was just a little out of the picture.

Mr. Jenkins, the grocer, rented a cutaway, and bought a new Panama to wear with it.

This is shown in Fig. 50, in which, also, two of the cutaway parts are removed.

Her cutaway coat was buttoned tightly over a manly bosom, and her waist was not waspish.

Examples of these are the disk, cutaway and spading harrows.

I said that to myself, but I met him with a smile, and with a 'how d'ye do, cutaway?'