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#1·Apr 27, 2026
Shortened by sawing.
The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(slang, US) A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(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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