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cut-in

[ kuht-in ]

noun

  1. Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:

    We will insert a cut-in of the letter as she reads it.

  2. Radio and Television. a commercial or other announcement inserted by a local station into a network broadcast.
  3. the act of cutting in, as on a dancing couple.


cut in

verb

  1. Alsocut into introften foll byon to break in or interrupt
  2. intr to interrupt a dancing couple to dance with one of them
  3. intr (of a driver, motor vehicle, etc) to draw in front of another vehicle leaving too little space
  4. informal.
    tr to allow to have a share
  5. intr to take the place of a person in a card game
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. Also calledinsert films a separate shot or scene inserted at a relevant point
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cut-in1

First recorded in 1880–85; noun use of verb phrase cut in
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Example Sentences

This is only a sort of 'cut-in' effect, anyhow—a preliminary to the grand performance that is to come later.

With this wiring layout, any number of batteries from one to ten may be cut-in by means of the switches.

A cut-in head is set in a panel, with or without rule, after the second or third line of the first paragraph.

But instead of commencing at once to cut-in, Captain Count gave orders to pile on all sail and keep her away up the Straits.

Just after we started to cut-in a boat appeared alongside with six Maories and half-breeds on board.

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