cut sb off
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
(PHONE)
[ usually passive ] to stop people from continuing a phone conversation by breaking the phone connection:
We got cut off before she could give me directions.
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Cutting off and disconnecting
- amputate
- amputee
- chop
- chop sth off
- crop
- cut
- disconnect
- dismember
- dissection
- dock
- lop sth off
- saw
- saw sth off
- sever
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Communications - by telephone
(DRINKS)
US If someone serving drinks in a bar cuts you off, that person stops serving you alcoholic drinks because they think you have drunk too many:
I'm glad the bartender cut Tommy off - he's already had too much to drink.
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Selling & serving alcoholic drinks
- bar
- barkeeper
- barmaid
- barman
- bartender
- free house
- gastropub
- hostelry
- innkeeper
- landlady
- licensee
- liquor store
- nineteenth
- public bar
- public house
- publican
- roadhouse
- saloon
- saloon bar
- wine bar
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(DRIVER)
US cutsb up
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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
- aquaplaning
- back sth up
- boxed in
- bump start
- bump start
- bus driver
- car seat
- carve
- corner
- dip
- driver
- driving
- foot
- hold the road idiom
- manoeuvring
- motor
- motorist
- pull away
- scorch
- turning circle
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