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cutthroats

cutthroats is the plural of cutthroat.

Meaning of cutthroat

Noun

cutthroat (countable and uncountable, plural cutthroats)

  1. A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
  2. An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
    • The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1
  3. (uncountable) A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.

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Questions about cutthroats

What is cutthroats the plural of?
Cutthroats is the plural of cutthroat.

Words near cutthroats in the dictionary

  1. cutthroat compounds
  2. cutthroat eel
  3. cutthroat eels
  4. cutthroat razor
  5. cutthroat trout
  6. cutthroats
  7. cuttie
  8. cutties
  9. cuttin'
  10. cutting
  11. cutting a dash

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