Definitions for sawed-off

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Spelling: [sawd-awf, -of]
IPA: /ˈsɔdˈɔf, -ˈɒf/

Sawed-Off is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in sawed-off (-adeffosw).

Definitions for sawed-off

adjective

  1. sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.
  2. Slang. smallish; of less than average size or stature.

Origin of sawed-off

An Americanism dating back to 1865-70

Examples for sawed-off

Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself.

A few feet from where we sit is the sawed-off stump of a third willow.

The Mexican crept to his sawed-off shotgun loaded with buck-shot.

He was the point man in the promotion when Evel Knievel swore he'd soar across Snake River Canyon in a sawed-off rocket ship.

And they've got four sawed-off shotguns and a tommy-gun in the back seat.

He could whang away at a quarter with that sawed-off .45 of his and hit it every crack.

"Here is where I shine by being a 'sawed-off,'" he informed me.

The burglar was a career criminal, just out of prison after robbing a liquor store with a sawed-off shotgun.

Andrew, thrilling with horror, recognized one as a sawed-off shotgun.

Bones and fragments, including teeth and sawed-off jawbones, were discovered after much of his farm was dug up in 2002.

Word Value for sawed-off
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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