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ˈthroat-ˌcutter Chiefly Sc. or nonce-wd.
One who cuts throats; a cutthroat, an assassin.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 18 Of throt-cutteris and all sic cursit cryme, And murderaris of leill men be the way. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. vii. 66 Bludy bucheouris and throtcutters. a1598Rollock Wks. (Wodrow Soc.) II. xv. 172 Two vagabonds, two throat-cutters. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. Wks. 1900 V. 209 An executioner..had come..to assist the professional throat-cutter.
So ˈthroat-ˌcutting vbl. n., the cutting of the throat; also fig., mutually destructive competition in trade; cf. to cut one another's throats s.v. throat n. 3 d; ppl. a., that cuts the throat.
1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14. i. iii. (1679) 7/2 He buys his Sleep dear, that pays his throat-cutting for it. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 23 Then come the murders, the throat-cuttings, the massacres of prisoners. 1859Habits Gd. Soc. iii. 132 How difficult..has it been to abolish the stiff black hat and the throat-cutting collar. 1888E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxii. 323 Your contemporaries, with their mutual throat-cutting, knew very well what they were at. 1931L. Steffens Autobiogr. II. iii. xxxv. 609 It was not exactly a pool, but there had been a lot of throat-cutting in the trade; the competitive bidding had cut prices down till no man could make any profit. |