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cut in en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. To intrude or interrupt.
   • “If something breaks during the day, work hours up until the evening, we’ll cut in — if we’re in the middle of, let’s say, a magazine program or a podcast on tape or a re-air of the game,” Radovich said. 2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
   • Taxon concepts […] are being produced at a fast rate and, as long as some minimal aspect of the rules of nomenclature laid down in the relevant code is fulfilled, these concepts can become permanent even when they may be deeply flawed scientifically. It is an ideal situation for someone to cut in – inappropriately – and produce large quantities of taxon names. 2023, Wolfgang Denzer, Hinrich Kaiser, “Naming And Gaming: The Illicit Taxonomic Practice Of 'Nomenclatural Harvesting' And How To Avoid It”, in Journal of Zoology, volume 320, number 3, page 162:
2. To intrude or interrupt. ▸ To take up a portion of.
   • This is cutting in on my free time.
3. To intrude or interrupt. ▸ To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
   • Cut in line
4. To intrude or interrupt. ▸ To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.
5. To intrude or interrupt. ▸ To begin riding a wave in front of someone else whose legitimate turn it is.
6. (dated, idiomatic) To intrude or interrupt. ▸ To dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner.
7. When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas.
8. (slang, transitive) To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
   • You can cut me in on the next hand of this card game.
9. (slang, transitive) To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something. ▸ To give (someone) a share of something.
10. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something. ▸ To take a share of something; to push one's way into a project, game or plan.

Forms

Deriveds

cut-in

Relateds

cut into · queue-jumper

Synonyms

push in · queue-jump · jump the queue

Translations (15)

fi etuilla (to join a queue in the middle) · es recortar (to paint edges and corners) · fr resquiller (to join a queue in the middle) · de abklatschen (to replace somebody's dancing partner) · fi maalata reunat (to paint edges and corners) · sv smita före (to join a queue in the middle) · es rematar (to paint edges and corners) · pl odbijać (to replace somebody's dancing partner) · pl wciąć się (w kolejkę) (to join a queue in the middle) · pl odbić (to replace somebody's dancing partner) · pl wcinać się (w kolejkę) (to join a queue in the middle) · fr couper (to join a queue in the middle) · de sich vordrängeln (to join a queue in the middle) · fr relayer (to replace somebody's dancing partner) · cmn 插隊 /插队 (to join a queue in the middle)