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cut
noun- an adulterant used to dilute a drug; a dilution of a drug US
- Now today, if you buy your piece, you’d be very lucky if you could get a three-to-one cut[.] — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 44, 1966
- New York Pure, no more than a one cut, if that. — Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, p. 88, 1974
- Bout sixty-five hunnerd for half a pound a meth plus half a pound a cut. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Secrets of Harry Bright, p. 191, 1985
- Probably all the lactose in the cut: you were shooting ten times more sugar than junk. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 139, 1990
- Buy four, bleed in a ounce of cut, make it five. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 185, 1992
- Because we extract a quarter ounce for ourselves, throw back in a quarter ounce of cut, sell it for like a hundred twenty-five a gram, clear around thirty-six hundred bucks. — Kenneth Lonergan, This is Our Youth, p. 35, 2000
- a share, usually of profits, often of ill-gotten gains AUSTRALIA, 1911
- You’ll never see the bill of lading until my cut is deposited in escrow! — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 180, 1957
- They sent me to offer you a cut. We could use a fifth man – a driver. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
- None of [Ray Davies’ managers and publishers] sued for libel, instead they just took their cut on this song, just as they had on all the others. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 272, 2001
- a reduction of a prison sentence US
- Gary went back to court to try to get a time cut. — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 15, 2002
- any district where goods are bought and sold with a minimum of questions asked UK
- — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, 1950
- any place where young people congregate to socialise US
- — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, p. 12, 1953
- someone’s appearance IRELAND
Usually derogatory. - He would have been an impressive sort of a cut of a skin if it hadn’t been for the sickly yellow-white belly peeping from underneath the T-shirt — Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer, p. 136, 1997
- You can tell, just by the cut of him that he’s done great deeds in his too brief lifetime. Skulls have cracked and foes been scattered — Clare Champion, 2 March 2001
- a stage or a degree UK, 1818
- Rod [Stewart]’s a cut above Geri [Halliwell] as Labour’s new mood music — Guardian, 22 May 2001
- I think Taggart, in writing, filming and performance, is a cut above most other cop shows. — Rob Gowland, Guardian, 19 June 2002
- of music, a recording or a special part of one US
From the verb sense. - — Roy Carr and Tony Tyler, The Beatles, 1975
- in hip-hop music, a sample or part of a tune that is played repeatedly US
- — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 137, 2000
- the vagina US
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 54, 1967
- a press cutting UK
- They were helping me to sort out my press cuttings (or “cuts” as we journalistas call them) from the last season of fashion shows. — The Times, p. 9, 26 April 2003
- a hitting of the open hand with a cane for corporal punishment AUSTRALIA, 1915
Formally common in the Australian school system, now the practice is obsolete. The term is commonly found in the plural as the punishment was generally so given. - It was a long walk to school and quite often we were late. This meant that we were punished with the cuts. — People Magazine, p. 52, 26 August 1981
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