sawed-off
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noun
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A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
adjective
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Shortened by sawing.
Example: The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
Short (as though something that should be there isn't).
Example: He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.