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cutthroat

UK /ˈkʌtθɹəʊt/US /ˈkʌtθɹoʊt/

adjective 3
noun 4
forms 3

adjective3

Involving the cutting of throats.
•
Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog.
- Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.
•
Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.
- He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner.

noun4

A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
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Ellipsis of cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).
- Children go through a phase of compound acquisition in which they invent cutthroats spontaneously before dropping the habit again. — 2015

forms

cutthroats · more cutthroat · most cutthroat

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