WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
cut-in
(kut′in′),USA pronunciation n.
cu•tin (kyo̅o̅′tin),USA pronunciation n.
- Show Business[Motion Pictures.]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.
- Show Business[Radio and Television.]a commercial or other announcement inserted by a local station into a network broadcast.
- the act of cutting in, as on a dancing couple.
- noun, nominal use of verb, verbal phrase cut in 1880–85
cu•tin (kyo̅o̅′tin),USA pronunciation n.
- Botanya transparent, waxy substance constituting, together with cellulose, the cuticle of plants.
- Latin cut(is) skin, cutis + -in2
- 1860–65
'cut-in' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Alps
- Laffer curve
- Magyar
- bangtail
- bilateral symmetry
- bird's mouth
- box
- bozo
- cat's-eye
- chase
- chatoyant
- chop
- cushion cut
- cut
- cut in
- cut-card work
- cutwork
- detail
- diatom
- entomo-
- facet
- feathercut
- fettuccine
- flattop
- flute
- gash
- gingerbread
- groove
- gullet
- hero sandwich
- hitch
- ice fishing
- insert
- intaglio
- jack-o'-lantern
- jerky
- lentil cut
- linocut
- marquise
- microgroove
- mowing
- pappardelle
- parallel
- pegwood
- potbelly wood
- première partie
- price war
- princess
- quartz crystal
- raggle