Definitions for cutoffs
cutoffs
cut·off
Spelling: [kuht-awf, -of]
IPA: /ˈkʌtˌɔf, -ˌɒf/
Cutoffs is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 91 anagrams from letters in cutoffs (cffostu).
Definitions for cutoffs
noun
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an act or instance of cutting off.
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something that cuts off.
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a road, passage, etc., that leaves another, usually providing a shortcut:
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a new and shorter channel formed in a river by the water cutting across a bend in its course.
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a point, time, or stage serving as the limit beyond which something is no longer effective, applicable, or possible.
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cutoffs, Also, cut-offs. shorts made by cutting the legs off a pair of trousers, especially jeans, above the knees and often leaving the cut edges ragged.
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Accounting. a selected point at which records are considered complete for the purpose of settling accounts, taking inventory, etc.
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Baseball. an infielder's interception of a ball thrown from the outfield in order to relay it to home plate or keep a base runner from advancing.
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Machinery. arrest of the steam moving the pistons of an engine, usually occurring before the completion of a stroke.
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Electronics. (in a vacuum tube) the minimum grid potential preventing an anode current.
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Rocketry. the termination of propulsion, either by shutting off the propellant flow or by stopping the combustion of the propellant.
adjective
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being or constituting the limit or ending:
Origin of cutoffs
First recorded in 1735-45; noun use of verb phrase cut off
Examples for cutoffs
I mean to cutoff all connection with the past; and she belongs to it.
Three-quarters of a mile from the ford we found the place to make the cutoff and there halted awhile.
As far as underage attendees, Dottley remains adamant that 18 was the cutoff point.
Holmes and Rahe used 300 (ding ding ding) as the cutoff to predict a high risk of illness.
Position diagram of cylinder with cutoff at 1/8, ¼, 3/8 and ½ stroke of piston with movable valves, on card 7½ in.
Whether a cutoff in the power supply is successful depends on whether the nuclear facility has a backup power supply.
Heidi Klum wore a pair of the Gizeh sandals with cutoff jean shorts, and Ashley Olsen wore them just about everywhere.
One hospital might set the cutoff at 20 or 50 or 100 years old, while another might figure 55 is the way to go.
Ishie groaned, depressed the cutoff switch and turned to Mike.
Bellamy was still stammering sheepishly when Lucinda cutoff.