[kuht-awf, -of] 
| 1. | an act or instance of cutting off. |
| 2. | something that cuts off. |
| 3. | a road, passage, etc., that leaves another, usually providing a shortcut: Let's take the cutoff to Baltimore. |
| 4. | a new and shorter channel formed in a river by the water cutting across a bend in its course. |
| 5. | a point, time, or stage serving as the limit beyond which something is no longer effective, applicable, or possible. |
| 6. | cutoffs, Also, cut-offs. shorts made by cutting the legs off a pair of trousers, esp. jeans, above the knees and often leaving the cut edges ragged. |
| 7. | Accounting. a selected point at which records are considered complete for the purpose of settling accounts, taking inventory, etc. |
| 8. | Baseball. an infielder's interception of a ball thrown from the outfield in order to relay it to home plate or keep a base runner from advancing. |
| 9. | Machinery. arrest of the steam moving the pistons of an engine, usually occurring before the completion of a stroke. |
| 10. | Electronics. (in a vacuum tube) the minimum grid potential preventing an anode current. |
| 11. | Rocketry. the termination of propulsion, either by shutting off the propellant flow or by stopping the combustion of the propellant. |
| 12. | being or constituting the limit or ending: a cutoff date for making changes. |
| cut·off also cut-off (kŭt'ôf', -ŏf') n.
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