cut-off
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cut-off
▶noun
- 1 a point or level marking a designated limit.
- 2 a device for interrupting a power or fuel supply.
■ a sudden drop in amplification or responsiveness of an electric device at a certain frequency.
- 3 (cut-offs) shorts made by cutting off the legs of a pair of jeans.
- 4 N. Amer. a short cut.
'cut-off' also found in these Oxford entries:
abscissa
- Amazon
- amputate
- apocope
- ashlaring
- behead
- bite
- chip
- circumcise
- colure
- comma
- couped
- coupon
- crap
- crop-eared
- cutting
- decapitate
- denervate
- entrecôte
- frustum
- hydra
- intercept
- isolate
- log
- lop
- mozzarella
- muumuu
- nose
- occult
- occulting light
- peremptory
- perfect binding
- pinion
- poll
- pollard
- prescind
- resect
- retail
- scamorza
- segment
- severance
- shaving
- shear
- shred
- snip
- snowbound
- stick
- syncope
- temenos
