cuts

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Noun

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cuts

  1. 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.

Noun

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cuts pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, 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[1], 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[2], page 250:
      My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts.

Verb

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cuts

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cut

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