Definitions
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- adjective cut short
- adjective well below average height
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Examples
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Or are the refs armed with chainsaws and sawn-off shotguns?
Sporting KC 0-2 Houston Dynamo - as it happened! | MLS Eastern Conference Championship 2011
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When I plant them out later this week, each will be protected with its own sawn-off water - or pop-bottle.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Bird fired 54 rounds of ammunition during his rampage, 23 rounds from his .22 rifle and 31 from the sawn-off shotgun.
Police had 'no grounds' to ban killer Derrick Bird from owning guns Martin Wainwright 2010
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I walk through East London every morning to get to work, and sometimes you can see the terrors of war superimposed on the modern landscape -- the sawn-off stubs of the iron railings that were harvested "for the war effort" (and dumped in the Channel without being turned into munitions after all), the single handsome old building stuck like an old tooth in the gleaming modern denture-work of sterile, post-War neubauten.
Boing Boing 2009
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When I plant them out later this week, each will be protected with its own sawn-off water - or pop-bottle.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jean 2009
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He says that at the trial the police tried to fit him up by charging him as though it were a sawn-off shotgun which carried an automatic year's prison sentence.
File reveals police view of drug squad raid on Keith Richards 2011
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And then there are the cigarettes you puff on after you've been sawn-off by the other team's umpire or run out by one of your idiotic team-mates*.
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And then there are the cigarettes you puff on after you've been sawn-off by the other team's umpire or run out by one of your idiotic team-mates*.
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And then there are the cigarettes you puff on after you've been sawn-off by the other team's umpire or run out by one of your idiotic team-mates*.
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Moat spent most of the confrontation with the police holding his sawn-off shotgun to his head and neck before pulling the trigger at 1. 15am.
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