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longcut en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From long + cut, modelled on shortcut.

Meanings

1. (humorous, informal, often) A path between two points that is not the shortest or quickest route.
   • The shortcut proved, as most of them seem to do, to be a "longcut" 1994, Gary Paulson, Winterdance, Harcourt Brace, page 69:
   • It's no shortcut, it's a "longcut." 2006, Kathy Morey, Hawaii Trails: Walks, Strolls and Treks on the Big Island, Wilderness Press, page 245:
   • I got to work twenty-three minutes later than when I take the longcut. 1986, Andrew A. Rooney, Word for Word, G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 55:

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Translations (3)

fr rallongis (route that is not the shortest) · da omvej (route that is not the shortest) · fr rallongi (route that is not the shortest)