Definition of "cut out"

cut out

verb
third-person singular simple present cuts out, present participle cutting out, simple past and past participle cut out
1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut,‎ out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
2. (transitive) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
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  Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students, but if it is to retain favor the intercollegiate league should cut out the muckerism which has attended its contests on the ice in recent years.
  1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 7, page 210
  “Cut that joshing out,” she said, coolly and briskly. “Who do you think you are talking to? Your check, please. Oh, Lordy!—”
  1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business‎
  I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing — that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out.
  1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, page 8
3. (transitive) To remove, omit.
4. (transitive) To oust, to replace.
5. (US, Australia, New Zealand) To separate (an animal) from the herd.
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  There was little fear that the navigator of the captured Osprey, the man who had lived in Chile and "cut out" cattle on the Carrum Plains, would prove lacking in knowledge of riding, seamanship, or Spanish customs.
  1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.2
6. (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
7. (intransitive) To leave suddenly.
8. (usually in passive) To arrange or prepare.
9. (transitive) To intercept.
  Quotations
  As lax as the visitors' defence was, Blackpool's backline was solid. In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post.
  2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC‎
10. (nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
adjective
comparative more cut out, superlative most cut out
1. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.
  Quotations
  I was cut out to be a jazzman the way the righteous are chosen for the church.
  1946, Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 3

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