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Definition of sawn-off in English: sawn-off(North American sawed-off) adjective 1attributive (of a gun) having a specially shortened barrel to make handling easier and to give a wider field of fire. （枪）枪管锯短的 Example sentencesExamples - Police are seeking a man to help with their inquiries about the sawn-off rifle and ammunition.
- The door to the apartment was barricaded from inside and when Gardai moved in, two shots were fired with a sawn-off shotgun at close range, injuring two Gardai.
- I frowned, glancing from his face to the sawed-off shotgun gleaming menacingly in his hands.
- What she carried was revealed to be a sawed-off shotgun, a twelve-gauge side-by-side.
- In both movie and book, the murder is committed by a killer armed with what appears to have been a sawed-off shotgun.
- At that point I felt for sure I was looking down the barrel of a sawn-off shotgun.
- Twenty guns, including handguns, rifles and sawn-off shotguns, were found at the house.
- I reached frantically for the light, wishing instead for a sawed-off shotgun.
- It was a sawn-off, double barreled shotgun with a pistol grip added.
- A young filling-station operator would proudly display his sawed-off automatic shotgun.
- They're running things, dealing out justice with sawed-off shotguns - all to the delight of the audience.
- The first federal gun legislation, the National Firearms Act of 1934, introduced controls on automatic weapons, sawed-off rifles and shotguns, and silencers, weapons popular with gangsters.
- A man was stopped in the lane with a sawn-off shotgun in the boot and a woman was arrested trying to sell drugs outside the junior school.
- He comes in and faces Stan, who has a sawed-off shot gun in his hand.
- Walker came face-to-face with the business end of a sawn-off shotgun.
- A four-man gang, armed with a sawn-off shotgun and a revolver, overpowered security guards and forced their way into the plant.
- There was no evidence whatsoever that anything coming remotely similar to a .22 calibre sawn-off rifle was used in either one of the robberies.
- His talent for being a big, grumpy guy with a sawed-off shotgun came from experience - lots of it.
- Marks followed her, his sawed-off shotgun in a holster strapped to his back.
- Of all the guns I've had over the years, my favorite was a sawed-off shotgun with a pistol grip.
Synonyms miniature, small, little, tiny, minute, toy, pocket, diminutive, baby, pygmy, stunted, undersized, undersize, small-scale, scaled-down, fun-size - 1.1informal (of an item of clothing) having been cut short.
〈非正式〉（衣服）改短的 Example sentencesExamples - A good hour before the fun's due to start and already the place is filling up with punks, teds, skins, student kids, moshers, grizzled old men in sawn-off T-shirts and a horde of beered-up lads baying for blood.
- 1.2US informal (of a person) short.
〈美，非正式〉（人）矮小的 my visitor was a sawed-off little fella Synonyms tiny, small, little, petite, minute, miniature, mini, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, small-scale, compact, pocket, toy, midget, undersized, short, stubby, elfin, dwarfish, dwarf, pygmy, bantam, homuncular, lilliputian
noun informal A sawn-off shotgun. 〈美，非正式〉枪管锯短的枪 he was hauling a sawn-off over his shoulder Example sentencesExamples - The third guard held a sawed-off and had time for one shot, but missed Karl.
- Times have changed a little from when you could sort this sort of stuff out with a sawn-off.
- Inside the house, I expected a typical wealthy Essex businessman's abode: crossed sawn-offs over a granite mantel, widescreen TVs in every tennis court, more fake marble than you could shake a building society branch at.
- There were fifteen automatic weapons, twenty semi-automatics, thirty-six shotguns, two sawn-offs, one hundred magazines of one hundred bullets, five pistols with two hundred clips and forty grenades.
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