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cut about

cut about verb: to go around (move from person to person).

Verb

cut about (third-person singular simple present cuts about, present participle cutting about, simple past and past participle cut about)

  1. (Scotland, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To go around (move from person to person).
    • Calum’s always cutting about spouting shite about his pals.

Forms of cut about

third-person singular presentcuts about
present participlecutting about
past participlecut about
pastcut about

Questions about cut about

What does cut about mean?
Cut about means to go around (move from person to person).
What part of speech is cut about?
Cut about is a verb.
What is the past tense of cut about?
The past tense of cut about is cut about.

Words near cut about in the dictionary

  1. cut a shine
  2. cut a swath
  3. cut a swathe
  4. cut a wide swath
  5. cut a wide swathe
  6. cut about
  7. cut above
  8. cut across
  9. cut along
  10. cut and carve
  11. cut and carved

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