Cut

Marks made by a cane

The word cut has different meanings:

• A cut can be a cut in paper, vegetable, or similar material.

• A cut can be a type of skin injury.

• A cut can refer to a haircut (e.g. crew cut, bob cut, bowl cut).

• A cut can refer to the style or shape of a garment.

• In corporal punishment, especially when the implement is hard and thin like a cane or switch, the individual strikes are sometimes called cuts. This usage may be British English. For a good example, see the poem Charlie Collingwood's Flogging by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

• In film, cut refers to the joining of camera takes into a longer film.

• In schooling, to cut school refers to truancy and is possibly a spankable offense.

• To be cut is a slang term for male circumcision.

• Cut and paste is a common technique in computing.

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