sawn-offs

sawn-off esp US, sawed-off

adj

1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (prenominal) (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon

2. Informal (of a person) small in stature

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Adj.	1.	sawn-off - well below average height pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" short, little - low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
	2.	sawn-off - cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use" shortened, sawed-off short - (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"

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sawn-off, (US) sawed-off

adj sawn-off shotgun → Gewehr nt → mit abgesägtem Lauf

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pint-size
pint-sized
Runty
sawed-off
sawn
sawn-off shotgun
shortened
slab

Muppets, slags, their treacles and Vinny Jones star in a well 'ard caper involving decapitation, lost drugs, dismembering, bags of cash, sawn-offs, card sharks and acid baths, which shows that loveable diamond geezers are alive and kicking to a pulp anyone who crosses them.

SAME AGAIN GUY? by The Mirror (London, England)

You never exactly seem to get balaclava-wearing spliffheads bursting into off-licences with sawn-offs,do you?

Debbie Johnson Column: Weeding between the lines; Cannabis law ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)

It's hard to believe we were meant to be willing Martin and Graham on as they held up a post office with ski-masks and two sawn-offs.

SHELLEY on THE TELLY: Brit Sopranos is criminally good by The Mirror (London, England)

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