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offcutter

offcutter is the alternative form of off cutter.

Meaning of off cutter

Noun

off cutter (plural off cutters)

  1. A ball bowled by a fast bowler who uses finger spin to move the ball from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman).
    • Boon couldn't handle my inswingers, Waugh had no idea with my off-cutters and my leggies were making Taylor dizzy.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 7

Forms of offcutter

pluraloffcutters

Questions about offcutter

What is offcutter the alternative form of?
Offcutter is the alternative form of off cutter.

Words near offcutter in the dictionary

  1. offcoming
  2. offcumden
  3. offcumdens
  4. offcut
  5. offcuts
  6. offcutter
  7. offcutters
  8. offcutting
  9. offcuttings
  10. offda
  11. offdiagonal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offcutter (page history and authors); off cutter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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