[kuht-bak] 
| 1. | a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production. |
| 2. | a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events. |
| 3. | Football. a play in which the ball-carrier abruptly reverses direction, esp. by starting to make an end run and then turning suddenly to run toward the middle of the line. |
| 4. | a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest. |
| cut·back (kŭt'bāk') n.
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