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cut-and-paste

cut-and-paste adjective: pieced together from several sources.

Adjective

cut-and-paste (comparative more cut-and-paste, superlative most cut-and-paste)

  1. Pieced together from several sources.

Synonyms of cut-and-paste

Forms of cut-and-paste

comparativemore cut-and-paste
superlativemost cut-and-paste

Origin of cut-and-paste

See cut and paste.

Questions about cut-and-paste

What does cut-and-paste mean?
Cut-and-paste means pieced together from several sources.
What part of speech is cut-and-paste?
Cut-and-paste is an adjective.

Words near cut-and-paste in the dictionary

  1. cut work
  2. cut works
  3. cut-and-come-again
  4. cut-and-cover
  5. cut-and-dried
  6. cut-and-paste
  7. cut-and-run
  8. cut-and-runs
  9. cut-and-shut
  10. cut-and-shuts
  11. cut-and-thrust

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