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longcut

longcut noun: a path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.

Noun

longcut (plural longcuts)

  1. (humorous, informal, often) A path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.
    • I got to work twenty-three minutes later than when I take the longcut.1986, Andrew A. Rooney, Word for Word, G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 55
    • The shortcut proved, as most of them seem to do, to be a "longcut"1994, Gary Paulson, Winterdance, Harcourt Brace, page 69

Forms of longcut

plurallongcuts

Origin of longcut

From long + cut, modelled on shortcut.

Questions about longcut

What does longcut mean?
Longcut means a path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.
What part of speech is longcut?
Longcut is a noun.
What is the plural of longcut?
The plural of longcut is longcuts.

Words near longcut in the dictionary

  1. longcloths
  2. longcoat
  3. longcoats
  4. Longcore
  5. Longcross
  6. longcut
  7. longcuts
  8. Longde
  9. Longden
  10. Longdens
  11. Longding

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