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Plural of cutthroat

regular plural

The plural of cutthroat is cutthroats.

Forms of cutthroat

Singularcutthroat /ˈkʌtθɹəʊt/
Pluralcutthroats
Countablecountable and uncountable

Cutthroats in a sentence

  • "I can't leave you here alone with these cutthroats, and you certainly can't venture into the jungle with me; yet someone must go in search of your father.1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes. From the entry impractical

Meaning of cutthroat

  1. noun A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
  2. noun An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
  3. noun A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.

Full definition of cutthroat

Questions about the plural of cutthroat

What is the plural of cutthroat?
The plural of cutthroat is cutthroats.
Is cutthroat countable?
Cutthroat is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cutthroat (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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