sawed-off

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adjective

sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.

Slang. smallish; of less than average size or stature.

Origin:
1865–70, Americanism

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sawn-off or esp (US) sawed-off

—*adj*
1.	(prenominal) (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
2.	informal (of a person) small in stature

sawed-off or esp (US) sawed-off

—*adj*

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Sawed-off is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Slang Dictionary

sawed-off definition

mod.
short of stature. : Tom called Mike a sawed-off little runt.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences

They carried a silver pistol and a sawed-off shotgun respectively.

Wynn claims that his sawed-off shotgun does not qualify as such a device.

Each false fork dead-ended in a clearing, and each clearing had a sawed-off

tree stump.

Moments later the subject removed a sawed-off shotgun from the duffel bag and

fired two rounds into the air.

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