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cut-throat n 1. a person who cuts throats; murderer 2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) Also called cut-throat razor Brit a razor with a long blade that usually folds into the handle US name straight razor adj
1. bloodthirsty or murderous; cruel 2. fierce or relentless in competition cut-throat prices 3. (Group Games / Games, other than specified) (of some games) played by three people cut-throat poker ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms cut-throat adjective 1. competitive, fierce, ruthless, relentless, unprincipled, dog-eat-dog the cut-throat world of international finance Translations cut-throat [ˈkʌtθrəʊt] A. N (= murderer) → asesino/a m/f B. ADJ (= fierce) [competition] → feroz, encarnizado C. CPD cut-throat razor N → navaja f (de afeitar) cut-throat n (= murderous type) → Verbrechertyp m adj competition, business → unbarmherzig, mörderisch cut-throat razor → (offenes) Rasiermesser How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The thought flashed across me that I might have before me a burglar or cut-throat, some monstrous Irregular Isosceles, who, by feigning the voice of a Circle, had obtained admission somehow into the house, and was now preparing to stab me with his acute angle. For this decline political confusion is the chief cause; first, in the renewal of the Hundred Years' War, with its sordid effort to deprive another nation of its liberty, and then in the brutal and meaningless War of the Roses, a mere cut-throat civil butchery of rival factions with no real principle at stake. A dozen bands of cut-throats he had driven from the Derby hills, and though the barons would much rather have had all the rest than he, the peasants worshipped him as a deliverer from the lowborn murderers who had been wont to despoil the weak and lowly and on whose account the women of the huts and cottages had never been safe. |
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