Sawed-off Definition
sôdôf, -ŏf
adjective
Designating a shotgun with the barrel cut off short.
Webster's New World
Having one end sawed off.
A sawed-off shotgun.
American Heritage
Short in stature.
A skinny, sawed-off man.
Webster's New World
Shortened by sawing.
The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
Wiktionary
(slang)Short (as though something that should be there isn't).
He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.
Wiktionary
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of saw off.
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