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Definition of "cut in" []

  • To intrude or interrupt. (verb)
  • Especially, to dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner. (verb)
  • When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas. (verb)
  • To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back (verb)

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Use "cut in" in a sentence
  • "During our final business session earlier in the day, Gorbachev and I had discussed language for a joint statement that was to be issued at the close of the summit and that would make note of our mutual commitment to seek a fifty-percent cut in nuclear weapons and include references to several new cultural and diplomatic exchanges."
  • "I intend to do everything I can to persuade them of our peaceful intent, to remind them that it was the West that refused to use its nuclear monopoly in the forties and fifties for territorial gain and which now proposes a fifty-percent cut in strategic ballistic missiles and the elimination of an entire class of land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles."
  • "One incident from the Congo on October 22–23 that Armstrong decided not to comment on in his journal was an embarrassing moment at the evening ball when Aldrin jumped from the dais and cut in on Miss Congo, who was dancing with her escort."