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cardboard cut-outs

cardboard cut-outs is the plural of cardboard cut-out.

Meaning of cardboard cut-out

Noun

cardboard cut-out (plural cardboard cut-outs)

  1. A piece of card that has been cut into a particular shape, especially the shape of a person with that person depicted on it.
  2. (figuratively) A character in a movie, book, or other work who is depicted as inauthentic, generic, or one-dimensional.

Questions about cardboard cut-outs

What is cardboard cut-outs the plural of?
Cardboard cut-outs is the plural of cardboard cut-out.

Words near cardboard cut-outs in the dictionary

  1. cardboard box
  2. cardboard boxes
  3. cardboard cities
  4. cardboard city
  5. cardboard cut-out
  6. cardboard cut-outs
  7. cardboard cutout
  8. cardboard cutouts
  9. cardboard-box
  10. cardboard-boxes
  11. cardboard-boxy

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