[kuht-in] 
| 1. | Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity: We will insert a cut-in of the letter as she reads it. |
| 2. | Radio and Television. a commercial or other announcement inserted by a local station into a network broadcast. |
| 3. | the act of cutting in, as on a dancing couple. |
| cu·tin (kyōōt'n) n. A waxlike, water-repellent material present in the walls of some plant cells and forming the cuticle, which covers the epidermis. [Latin cutis, skin; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots + -in.] |