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cutout

[ kuht-out ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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.
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.
an act or instance of cutting out.
Slang. a trusted intermediary between two espionage agents or agencies.
Electricity. a device for the manual or automatic interruption of electric current.

Origin of cutout¹

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

Another showed black crows pecking at a cutout of Switzerland.

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

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

The spandex dresses feature cutout panels on the sides, short skirts, and the word “MAVS” written across the chest.

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

The pencil is drawn along one edge of the cutout so that it will make lines as shown in Fig. 2.

Gault was holding up a large paper cutout of a human figure—a long, rangy man.

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

He would distract the attention of the Entity from Gault by making another cutout.

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

April 18, 2024petrichor

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