cuts
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʌts/
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
cuts
- plural of cut
- 1922, The Bride's Cookery Primer, Good Housekeeping, volume 74, page 66:
- Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.
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- (Australia, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.
- 1995, Bill Marsh, Ape, Old Yanconian Daze, page 110,
- ‘I′ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.
- Meat was taken off to the staff room and given the cuts.
- 2001, Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town, page 55:
- He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn′t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.
- 2008, Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate, page 250:
- My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts.
- 1995, Bill Marsh, Ape, Old Yanconian Daze, page 110,
Verb
cuts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cut
Anagrams
- Cust., TUSC, U.S.C.T., USCT, cust, scut