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cut out
verb- to leave US, 1827
- Five of us piled into a cab and cut out for the colored district on the South Side. — Milton Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 25, 1946
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- Now, look, man, we ought to be cutting out. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 98, 1952
- “This joint must have just been raided,” she said. “Looks like everybody cut out.” — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 6, 1955
- With her pretty nose in the air she cut out of there[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 89, 1957
- Then E.J. and I had cut out, bumming around and fruit-picking[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 84, 1961
- — J.L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 169, 1966
- Looks like you decided to cut out early. — Empire Records, 1995
- to die US
- The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after they’ve cut out. — William “Lord” Buckley, Marc Anthony’s Funeral Oration, 1955
- to take goods in payment instead of money AUSTRALIA
- After the refund we had a fiver left over so, with Alan’s permission, we proceeded to cut it out over the bar. — Joe Brown, Just for the Record, p. 54, 1984
- to pay for something by having sexual intercourse rather than using money AUSTRALIA
- Beyond the moat, a group of taxi drivers (telling each other lies about long jobs they’d got, and women who cut out the fare in the back seat)[.] — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 49, 1971
- So she suggested that the old fulla might like to come in an cut it out. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 63, 1979
- (of a power-source controlled by automatic technology) to switch off; to break (electrical) contact UK, 1984
- to serve time in prison rather than paying a fine AUSTRALIA, 1939
- Take the parking fines you’re always on about: some people pay them, some cut them out in jail[.] — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 183, 1986
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 35, 1999
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