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[kuht-bak] Pronunciation Key
[kuht-bak] Pronunciation Key –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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