Shortened by sawing.
The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
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(slang) Short, as though truncated.
He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.
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(slang, US) A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
1988, N.W.A. (Ice Cube), "Straight Outta Compton", Straight Outta Compton, 8 Aug 1998:
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