longcut

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Etymology

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From long +‎ cut, modelled on shortcut.

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Noun

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longcut (plural longcuts)

  1. (informal, often humorous) A path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.
    • 1986, Andrew A. Rooney, Word for Word, G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 55:
      I got to work twenty-three minutes later than when I take the longcut.
    • 1994, Gary Paulson, Winterdance, Harcourt Brace, page 69:
      The shortcut proved, as most of them seem to do, to be a "longcut"
    • 2006, Kathy Morey, Hawaii Trails: Walks, Strolls and Treks on the Big Island, Wilderness Press, page 245:
      It's no shortcut, it's a "longcut."

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