longcut
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From long + cut, modelled on shortcut.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]longcut (plural longcuts)
- (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."