CANECUTTER Definition & Meaning

canecutter

or cane cut·ter

[ keyn-kuht-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of canecutter¹

1835–45, Americanism, for earlier sense; cane + cutter

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In Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, he played a middle-aging bull of a canecutter foreman who loses his job and his virile stud appeal at about the same time.

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