sawn-off

See also: sawn off

English

Noun

sawn-off (plural sawn-offs)

1. A sawn-off shotgun.

Adjective

sawn-off (not comparable)

1. Of a long-barrelled firearm, having had the stock sawn off.
   • 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 38:

     He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two.