(North American sawed-off)
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adjective
[attributive] (of a gun) having a specially shortened barrel to make handling easier and to give a wider field of fire. informal (of an item of clothing) having been cut short: sawn-off pale pink jeans US informal (of a person) short: my visitor was a sawed-off little fella
noun
informal a sawn-off shotgun: he was hauling a sawn-off over his shoulder
