sawn-off in the PONS Dictionary

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Detainees are not given any blankets or mattresses and are forced to use a bucket or a sawn-off 2-litre plastic cool drink bottle as a toilet.
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The chancel arch is 14th-century, plain with no mouldings and traces of an earlier roof gable above it, and preserving two sawn-off ends of the rood beam.
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The sawn-off can also be used in emergency situations when a barrier is about to fall.
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Slugs of cheap vodka are poured into the sawn-off bottom of plastic water bottles serving as cups.
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It was a tall structure, helix-shaped at first sight but then resembling the sawn-off end of a church.
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The items concerned are increasingly stylish, streets ahead of the conventional, baggier short and a quantum leap above the sawn-off, thigh-length monstrosities favoured by some.
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Yeah, have to agree that being blown to smithereens be sawn-off touting corner clingers can get a tad annoying after a time.
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The people who take time off from work to get closer to a sawn-off dummy than anybody really wants to in order to practice mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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A sawn-off plastic dustbin, partially sunk into the soil, works very well, although the sides may well need disguising by judicious planting.
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At the time, he stood only 150cm ft tall and wielded a sawn-off bat.
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