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Cutthroat

noun

Someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat.

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"Cutthroat" Quotes from Famous Books

... of that. I don't care two whoops about the money. There is still gold in the Klappan Range and other corners of the North, whenever I need it. But it nauseated me. I can't stand that cutthroat game. And Granville, like most other cities of its kind, lives by and for that sort of thing. The pressure of modern life makes it inevitable. Anyway, a town is no place for me. I can stomach it about so long, and no longer. It's too cramped, too girded about with petty-larceny conventions. If ...

— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... to let you stay alone in a room," declared the eldest brother. "But there's no use of our tryin' to start home to-night. We couldn't get off without somebody knowin' about it, and I don't want any cutthroat Indians after me. If we had fresh horses it'd be a different thing. We'd lead 'em a run for the farm. But the ponies are tired. We'll start home in the mornin', and I'll get this wad into a safe at the station before night." He ...

— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates

Words linked to "Cutthroat" : bowelless, merciless, liquidator, manslayer, unmerciful, fierce, murderer