Undercut

Quick meaning: Undercut is a noun meaning A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.

Meaning

A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.

More Meanings

1. The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
2. The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
3. A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
4. A blow dealt upward.
5. (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
6. The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
7. (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.

Example Sentences

Maybe it’s true that “the Left can’t meme,” if “the Left” refers to the earnest suburban revolutionary with an undercut and a nose ring who typically stalks your replies on X.

Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

The fact that, to cover low tariffs on bulk commodities, the railways have to charge very high rates on high-value goods, such as manufactures, has provided road operators with a golden opportunity to undercut the railway.

This was a very generous way of describing the swarm of cables, kit-bashed thaumatic cores, Noogenic foci and para-technological inverters, all surrounded by an astoundingly complex cognitohazardous sigil and multiple ontological anchors. This, simultaneously, simplified the interdisciplinary effort that had swelled in a miniscule amount of time, and undercut the sheer conceptual impact this could leave in all of their respective fields.

Word Forms

• undercuts
• undercutting

Synonyms for undercut

Depending on context, synonyms include undersell, tenderloin.

Antonyms for undercut

Common opposites include overcut.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tenderloin, undersell, cut, erode, eroded, lower.

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