How to pronounce “in the cut”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
• (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
• (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
• (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
• (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
• (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
• (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
• (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
• (transitive) To renounce or give up.
• (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
• (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
• To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
• (colloquial, intransitive) To run or hurry.
• [Adjective]
• (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• Reduced.
• (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
• (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt. [from 20th c.]
• (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.[2]
• [Noun]
• (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
• (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
• [Interjection]
• (film and television) An instruction to cease recording.

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