cutthroat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
2. isim An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.

   “The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.”

3. isim A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
4. isim Ellipsis of cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).

   “Children go through a phase of compound acquisition in which they invent cutthroats spontaneously before dropping the habit again.”

5. sıfat Involving the cutting of throats.
6. sıfat Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.

   “He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner.”

7. sıfat Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog.

   “Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.”