Definition of "sawed-off" in English

adjective

1. Shortened by sawing.

   • The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.

2. (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.

noun

1. (slang, US) A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.

   • When I'm called off, I got a sawed-off / Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off