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Definition of Cut-in

1. Noun. (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program.

2. Noun. (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut-in

custrel custrels custron custumal custumals custumaries custumary cusum cut cut-and-dried

cut-and-dry cut-and-paste cut-and-shut cut-and-thrust cut-back cut-in (current term) cut-off cut-offs cut-out cut-outs

cut-price cut-rate cut-rate sale cut-throat cut-throat razor cut-throat razors cut-up cut a caper cut a dash cut a rug

Literary usage of Cut-in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)
"In these, known as the Clansman workings, the south lode has only been cut in one or two small shafts, and has been of no value. ..."

2. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Now Rex is safe, it is so droll to fancy the figure he and Primrose would cut—in a lane all by themselves—only a blacksmith running up. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Therefore, a cut in the upper course, со- [469] incident with the joint below, would permit any action of the settling of the lower course, through frost or ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"The approximate dimensions of the cone in my apparatus are : lower base, 20 cm.; upper base, 15 cm.; height, 3.7 cm. The -cone is cut in two along the axis, ..."

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