Definitions for cutouts

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cutouts cut·out

Spelling: [kuht-out]

IPA: /ˈkʌtˌaʊt/

Cutouts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in cutouts (costtuu).

Definitions for cutouts

noun

1. something cut out from something else, as a pattern or figure cut out or intended to be cut out of paper, cardboard, or other material.
2. a valve in the exhaust pipe of an internal-combustion engine, which when open permits the engine to exhaust directly into the air ahead of the muffler.
3. an act or instance of cutting out.
4. Slang. a trusted intermediary between two espionage agents or agencies.
5. Electricity. a device for the manual or automatic interruption of electric current.

Origin of cutouts

First recorded in 1790-1800; noun use of verb phrase cut out

Examples for cutouts

He would get the Professor returned by pressing the upper portion of the cutout flatly onto the desk surface.

There were no Balmain buckles, no Alexander Wang-style cutout dresses, not even a one-shoulder number by Obama favorite Jason Wu.

"The Professor doesn't want me to touch the cutout," he said helplessly.

Another showed black crows pecking at a cutout of Switzerland.

I squinted through a cutout in the hut: nothing but thick rainforest.

Their house, she said, had a John McCain poster on the door and a Barak Obama cutout in the living room.

In the black-and-white stop-motion animation Dollhouse, Sherman casts herself as a cutout doll from a book.

If a "cutout" is on the board, keep its contacts smooth and clean.

Some cutouts have a spiral spring attached to the cutout armature.

He reached a hand toward the cutout, the torso of which still bulged upward from the desk.