(sports) Of a sportsman's clause or contract: guaranteeing that they will not be taken off the team during a designated period.

(film) A section of film inserted into another sequence. / (video games, by extension) A visual sequence focusing on a character's face or body while they perform a special move.

(participial adjective) Having been cut. / Reduced. / (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw. / (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.

The act of cutting. / The result of cutting. / An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. / A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.

(film and television) An instruction to cease recording.

To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back. / To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.

plural of cut

(Australia, New Zealand, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cut

(idiomatic) To suffice; to be effective or successful.