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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. [Colloq.] to make off suddenly and quickly; -- from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor.

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  • “Whirlwindship finding the whole Barton generation "creatures without stimulus," whom he was desirous to cut and run from, by "feeling it his duty to see poor Mrs. Carlyle 'ome.”

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

  • “As far as he was concerned, if Seraph's leaders wanted to cut and run they were welcome to do so.”

    Angelmass

  • “Nor at the other islands visited by the Makambo had Kwaque any desire to cut and run for it.”

    CHAPTER III

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. indenture
  2. run
  3. take to the woods
  4. turn tail
  1. runaway
  2. scarper
  3. scat
  4. crosscut
  1. escape
  2. fly the coop
  3. head for the hills
  4. hightail it
  1. lam
  2. breakaway
  3. bunk
  4. runner
  1. strike
  2. swift
  3. steam shovel
  4. sweet
  1. well-decked
  2. track

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