sawed-off adjective 2noun 1forms 1 adjective2 •Shortened by sawing.The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal. •(slang) Short, as though truncated.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. noun1 •(US, slang) A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.When I'm called off, I got a sawed-off / Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off — 1988 formssawed-offs
