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n. A designated limit or point of termination.

n. A shortcut or bypass.

n. A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow.

n. The act or an instance of cutting off: a cutoff of funds; an electricity cutoff.

n. Baseball The interception by an infielder of a throw to home plate from the outfield.

n. A device that cuts off a flow of fluid.

n. Music A conductor's signal indicating a stop or break in playing or singing.

n. Pants, such as blue jeans, made into shorts by cutting off part of the legs.

adj. Designating a limit or point of termination: a cutoff date for applications.

adj. Baseball Serving to intercept or relay a throw to home plate from the outfield: the cutoff man.

n. The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.

n. A road, path of channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.

n. A device that stops the flow of a current.

n. A cessation in a flow or activity.

n. The player who acts directly before the player on the button preflop in Texas hold 'em.

n. shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers

"Once one reaches the cutoff from the Villahermosa highway to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas in Southeastern Mexico, one is still about 1,000 kilometers from Cancun to the north and east."

cut   

disrupt    interrupt    breakup    stop    intercept   

cut-off governor    cut-off valve    commercial cut-off    automatic cut-off    cut-off ring   

expansion   

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