Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A murderer, especially one who cuts throats.
- n. An unprincipled, ruthless person.
- n. A cutthroat trout.
- adj. Cruel; murderous.
- adj. Relentless or merciless in competition: a cutthroat business.
- adj. Sports & Games Being a form of game in which each of three or more players acts and scores individually: cutthroat handball; cutthroat bridge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A murderer; an assassin; a ruffian.
- n. The mustang grape of Texas, Vitis candicans: so called from its acrid taste. Sportsman's Gazetteer.
- n. A dark lantern in which there is generally horn instead of glass, and so constructed that the light may be completely obscured. Jamieson.
- n. A piece of ordnance. Jamieson.
- Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
- To cut the throat of.
Wiktionary
- n. A murderer who slits the throats of his victims.
- n. An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
- adj. Involving the cutting of throats
- adj. Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.
- adj. Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
- adj. Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
- adj. Ruthless; conducted without restraint.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. ruthless in competition
- n. someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
Etymologies
- cut + throat (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The cutthroat trout of Rosebud Creek, Montana, the type locality for the name cutthroat trout, have been totally replaced by brook, brown, and rainbow trout.”
“If I'm not mistaken the cutthroat is the only true trout to America.”
“More miles of free flowing rivers than any other state, the mountain cutthroat streams of other western states, along with Sea Run Steelhead and Salmon.”
“The number of people who will swear by Microsoft, even though it has consistently put out inferior products for two decades while indulging in cutthroat business practices as a matter of principle.”
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“It is in cutthroat markets for laptops, digital cameras, G.P.S. units and plenty of other products.”
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“Fact is, infrastructure requires investment, and we are in cutthroat competition for this economic activity with every other west coast port.”
“The common name cutthroat trout, which applies to the species as a whole, was first used for a population of Yellowstone cutthroat trout.”
“Thus the type locality for the original description of the common name cutthroat trout is Rosebud Creek.”
“Characteristics that could be classified as cutthroat were considered childish, aggressive, and contrary to the traits that might create peace.”
“Another corrido is about Joaquin Murrieta, native of Sonora who live in the Gold Rush era in California and became known as a cutthroat bandido.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cutthroat’.
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FUN - fish can be...
Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
U-mark, U-spot, X-ray, Y-prickleback, ox-eyed, arc-eye, big-claw, big-eye, big-eyed, big-head, big-lip, big-scale and 509 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, slubberdegullion, bastard, hooligan, boor, churl, thug, cad, ne'er-do-well, miscreant, minx and 85 more...
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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Agentive Exocentric [V+N]N Compounds
Agentive and Instrumental Exocentric Verb-Noun Compounds that are still found in Modern English to some degree.
breakwater, sellsword, breakfast, scarecrow, cutthroat, pickpocket, turncoat, killjoy
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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Handcraft
Gestures, signs and signals.
gesture, sign language, hand signal, manual communication, diving signal, tic-tac, gang signal, thumbs up, thumbs down, finger binary, pointing, a-ok and 106 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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