cut-throat

Speech parts

1. cut-throat - Noun

2. cut-throat - Adjective

Meaning

cut-throat (plural cut-throats)

Alternative spelling of cutthroat

cut-throat (comparative more cut-throat, superlative most cut-throat)

Alternative spelling of cutthroat

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

cut throat

Synonyms

slayer iceman liquidator murderer razor executioner slaughterer butcherly manslayer exterminator hatchet man knock-down-and-drag-out massacrer axman

Antonyms

seasonal part-time bone-idle

Examples

Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. Anthony Burgess

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. Kim Young-sam

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. Robert Burns

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler. Gordon Ramsay

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves. Cheryl Cole

An often used example is "putting a gun to someone's head" (at gunpoint) or putting a "knife under the throat" (at knifepoint or cut-throat) to compel action or the victim gets killed or injured. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cut-rate store cut-set cut-stone cut-throat competition cut-throat razor cut-up