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Cut in

verb

Allow someone to have a share or profit.

Drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably.

Break into a conversation. Synonyms: barge in, break in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, put in.

Interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner.

Mix in with cutting motions.

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... panic-stricken and ran off, leaving their camp in confusion, and their supper which they were cooking but did not stop to eat. A little below the point where we reached the river, and on the other side, was the steamboat "Maffet" with a party of soldiers gathering the wheat which had been cut in the neighboring fields and was in the sheaf. I was for a moment doubtful whether it might not be one of our own boats which had ventured up the river under protection of the regiment left behind, and directed our skirmishers who were deployed along ...

— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... think so at all," cut in Hoskins, before Mr Perry could reply. "It may seem so to you, Purchase, because it has just been presented to you, fresh and unexpectedly, as it were. But when we arrived at King Olomba's town yesterday morning, and found neither slaves nor barracoon there, I must confess that I ...

— A Middy of the Slave Squadron - A West African Story • Harry Collingwood

... Sheehys' quarthers?' sez Dinah very slow, an' Judy cut in wid: 'He was there from nine till ten, Dinah Shadd, an' the betther half av that time I was sittin' on his knee, Dinah Shadd. Ye may look and ye may look an' ye may look me up an' down, but ye won't look away that Terence is my promust man, Terence, darlin', 'tis ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... dragged into the boat insensible. A moment later and a hand was seen to rise in the midst of the wreckage. Guy knew it well. He grasped it and held on. A few seconds more and Jo Grain, with blood pouring down his face, from a deep cut in his head, was ...

— Personal Reminiscences in Book Making - and Some Short Stories • R.M. Ballantyne

... had purchased half a dozen lemons from the refreshment stand. One of these he cut in halves, secreting the pieces in a pocket of his clown costume; then when the time came he stationed himself in front of the bandstand where he stood until he had gained the attention of several of ...

— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington

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