单词 | cutback |
释义 | cutback /kut"bak'/, n. 1. a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production. 2. a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events. 3. Football. a play in which the ball-carrier abruptly reverses direction, esp. by starting to make an end run and then turning suddenly to run toward the middle of the line. 4. a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest. [1895-1900; n. use of v. phrase cut back] |
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