(sports) Of a sportsman's clause or contract: guaranteeing that they will not be taken off the team during a designated period.

To perform an incision on, for example with a knife. / To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. / To form or shape by cutting. / (slang) To wound with a knife.

(participial adjective) Having been cut. / Reduced. / (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw. / (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.

The act of cutting. / The result of cutting. / An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. / A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.

(film and television) An instruction to cease recording.

(countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut. / (countable) A newspaper clipping.

That is used for cutting. / Piercing, sharp. / Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful. / (India) Of a beverage: half-sized.

present participle of cut

To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back. / To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.

plural of cut