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Synonyms for cutter

Most common

splash shank rambo pokey tender ship's boat carver cut fastball

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Shank — an active child

shank, pokey, rambo, splash, ying, bassy, splasher, nank, jooker, chete slang

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    An active child.

  2. n. 2

    A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

    a stone cutter; a die cutter

Forms

Plural
cutters → shanks, pokeys, rambos, splashes…

Example sentences

  • splash Splish-splash is an example of an ideophone.
  • shank If the car breaks down, I’ll have to go by shank’s mare.
  • rambo Run to the video store and get us a copy of Rambo.
  • pokey Tom spent all night in the pokey.
  • tender It was put out to tender, and an Italian firm won.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
cutterfalling
splashrising
shankfalling
rambosteady
pokeyrising
tendersteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
boat1, chop1, ying1, nank
5 letters
shank1, rambo2, pokey2, borer2, bassy, chete
6 letters
tender2, splash1, hacker2, carver2, jooker
7 letters
surgeon2, cutlery3, slasher2, pinnace
8 letters
splasher, tenpence
11 letters
stonecutter3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rambo2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
chaloupe
Italiano
scialuppa
Español
chalupa
Deutsch
Schaluppe