Cut-in
Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:
We will insert a cut-in of the letter as she reads it.
Radio and Television. a commercial or other announcement inserted by a local station into a network broadcast.
the act of cutting in, as on a dancing couple.
Historical Examples
Gullible’s Travels, Etc. Ring W. Lardner
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories Louis Becke
Typesetting A. A. Stewart
The Cruise of the Cachalot Frank T. Bullen
The Cruise of the Cachalot Frank T. Bullen
The Moving Picture Girls at Sea Laura Lee Hope
The Automobile Storage Battery O. A. Witte
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to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger. to divide with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever; carve: to cut a rope. to detach with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; separate from the main body; lop off: to cut a slice from a […]
- Cut-it-fine
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- Cut-it-up
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any of various triangular sails set forward of a forestaysail or fore-topmast staysail. Compare flying jib, inner jib. the inner one of two such sails, set inward from a flying jib. of or relating to a jib: jib clew. cut of one’s jib, one’s general appearance, mien, or manner: I could tell by the cut […]