Definition of "cutoff" []

• A designated limit or point of termination. (noun)
• A shortcut or bypass. (noun)
• A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow. (noun)
• The act or an instance of cutting off: a cutoff of funds; an electricity cutoff. (noun)
• Baseball The interception by an infielder of a throw to home plate from the outfield. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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."
• "The cutoff for runoffs should be more like 45% or 42% - 40% for runoffs for sure - but a hard 50+1 cutoff is pretty dumb IMO."
• "The threat of a funding cutoff is an old one among conservatives, who have long characterized NPR as a bastion of liberal bias."