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cutter noun- a surgeon US
- Y’all were short a couple cutters and we’re what the Army sent. — M*A*S*H, 1970
- an illegal abortionist FIJI, 1994
- a person who is proficient with the use of a knife or of a weapon US
- Crazy’s reputation as a cutter and potential killer was well known in Brownsville. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 214, 1947
- a pistol US, 1908
- — American Speech, p. 193, October 1957: “Some colloquialisms of the handgunner”
- a musician who betters another in a competition of solos US
- Mexico’s “cutters” must have played variations on it for three straight, solid hours. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 49, 1956
- any substance used to dilute a drug, thereby expanding volume while reducing potency US
- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 288, 1995
- in American casinos, twenty-five cents US
Playing on the sound of “quarter.” - — Steve Kuriscak, Casino Talk, p. 17, 1985
- money UK
- [W]hen the establishment Mafioso realise how much gilt, paper, cashish, wonga, wedge, corn, cutter, loot, spondos, dollar, readies, shillings, folding, dough, money is on offer[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 94, 2000
- a forensic pathologist US
- Julie Goodin looks nothing like a cutter, and considering the prevailing stereotype, that’s probably something of a compliment. — David Simon, Homicide, p. 428, 1991
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