Definition of "cutoffs" [cutoffs]

• Plural form of cutoff. (noun)
• Trousers (most often jeans) that have been shortened by cutting off part or most of the legs (noun)

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• "This brand of "austerity" is all the more notable because, in a sense, the advertising proved true: Compared to most of its European brethren and certainly to the U.S., the U.K. is embarking on one of the world's sharpest cutoffs from the recent deficit-spending explosion, which is likely to mean nearly a half-million public-sector job losses over the next five years."
• "I saw 2 Mexican girls on the street the other day in cutoffs and it was so unusual I wondered if they might be tourists."
• "I know I am an old fart, but I've about had it with hairy slobs in cutoffs on airplanes, girls in flipflops at the White House and Edgar attendees who show up looking like they just cleaned out the slushpile closet."