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cardboard cutout

cardboard cutout is the alternative form 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.

Forms of cardboard cutout

pluralcardboard cutouts

Questions about cardboard cutout

What is cardboard cutout the alternative form of?
Cardboard cutout is the alternative form of cardboard cut-out.

Words near cardboard cutout in the dictionary

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

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