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cut⋅back

  [kuht-bak]
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–noun
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.
Origin:
1895–1900; n. use of v. phrase cut back
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cut·back   (kŭt'bāk')   
n.  
  1. A decrease; a curtailment: "The political effects of food cutbacks could be devastating" (New York Times).
  2. A sharp reversal of direction, as of a ball carrier in football.
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