cutting in

Verb

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

1. To intrude or interrupt.
   • “If something breaks during the day, work hours up until the evening, we’ll cut in — if we’re in the middle of, let’s say, a magazine program or a podcast on tape or a re-air of the game,” Radovich said.2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer
   1. To take up a portion of.
      • This is cutting in on my free time.
   2. To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
      • Cut in line
   3. To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.
   4. To begin riding a wave in front of someone else whose legitimate turn it is.
   5. (dated, idiomatic) To dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner.

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