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cut and shut, n. and a. colloq. (orig. and chiefly Brit.).
Brit. |ˌkʌt (ə)n(d) ˈʃʌt|, U.S. |ˈkət (ə)n(d) ˈʃət|
Forms: 19– cut and shut, 19– cut 'n' shut, 19– cut 'n shut, 19– cut n' shut, 19– cut n shut [Also with hyphens.]
[‹ cut adj. + and conj.1 + shut adj.]
A. n. A car produced by welding together the front section of one damaged or stolen car and the back section of another; the practice of producing cars in this manner. Hence: a model of vehicle manufactured to a design that uses elements of the body shape of two or more existing models, or that elongates or shortens an existing body shape. Also (in extended use): a hybrid; something which incorporates elements of others of its type, esp. clumsily or obviously.
1977Drive Sept.–Oct. 112/2 Two crashed cars, hacksawn in halves then welded together to conceal the damage, is a cut and shut. 1993Guardian 3 July i. 30/3 The practice of welding two different cars together—known in the trade as a ‘cut-and-shut’—is potentially lethal and not an uncommon experience for private used car buyers. 1998Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Dec. From the outside the casual observer wouldn't give the vehicle a second glance, although it has been elongated by a two-foot ‘plug’ in the middle. The cut-and-shut, however, was just the start of the {pstlg}60,000 five-month project. 2002Bath Chron. (Nexis) 27 May 23 This baffling show seems more like a cut-n-shut of some of the shows mentioned above and some golden oldies of times gone by—Family Fortunes springs to mind.
B. adj. Designating or relating to a cut and shut; involving the practice of cut and shut.
1984P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 282/1 Cut and shut, adj. and, often hyphenated, n. The most dangerous of all [second-hand cars]. Two severely damaged cars are cut in half and best [sic] part of one is welded to the best part of the other. This technique is also used to disguise stolen cars. 1986Times (Nexis) 16 Aug. The register could also be pressed into service to control ‘cut and shut’ repairs. 1999Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 9 Jan. Ford showed the Sport Trac, a cut-and-shut job, marrying the front two-thirds of an Explorer with the back third of an F-Series pickup. 2002Re: Why I won't be voting for Labour in the Next Election in uk.politics.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 11 July Labours ‘third way’ is ‘cut and shut’ politics taking the worst half of capitalism and the worst half of socialism. |