Translations for „sawed-off“ in the English » German Dictionary

ˈsawed-off ADJ Am

sawed-off → sawn-off

See also sawn-off

ˈsawn-off ADJ attr, inv

1. sawn-off (with shortened barrel):

sawn-off shotgun

abgesägte Schrotflinte

2. sawn-off dated sl (short person):

sawn-off person

abgesägter Riese sl

3. sawn-off inf (of clothes):

sawn-off

abgeschnitten

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

a sawn-off [or sawed-off] shotgun

eine abgesägte Schrotflinte

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Misty always wanted to be a radio deejay and recalled that, as a youth, she would fashion imaginary microphones with a tomato soup can and a sawed-off broom pole.

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The base of the mount is a sawed-off stump.

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Several sections of fence were removed, but sawed-off fence posts were left in the grass, where they're hard to see.

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Eventually he went to the rehabilitation center's obstacle course, where he could test the leg out moving around in a gravel pit and on sawed-off logs.

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And that's in spite of the undeniably brutish sight of me dipping a spoon into a sawed-off bone, yumming on its content.

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We went there and found a sawed-off bollard that was put there to prevent vehicles from driving into the park.

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But even now there's too much loose skin below the sawed-off end of his femur and the skin is easily irritated when he fastens his artificial leg onto his stump.

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For a palpable sense of time, blow into the sawed-off spire of a conch.

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Before, we were just sawed-off filmmakers trying to get our point across through the script, so directing came easily for us.

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We went in and out between two rows of sawed-off pilings, never complaining.

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