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sawn-off noun a shotgun with the barrels sawn off to a much shorter length to aid concealment of the weapon and enhance the lethal spread of the shot UK- Parker had a shrewd idea that a sawn-off–a weapon useless except for close quarters work against members of the human race–was illegal anyway. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 48, 1959
- [A] policeman carried no special dispensation from a yard man’s ’matic [automatic weapon] or a cockney’s sawn-off. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 4, 1994
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 101, 1996
- [G]o home and get the sawn-off[.] — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 224, 2000
- [T]he jolly old sawn-off went out with sideboards and radiograms, three-piece whistles with twenty-four inch lionels[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 8, 2000
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