CUTTHROAT
Cutthroat
Cutthroat is a comic book character, a supervillain in Marvel Comics' main shared universe. The character first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #89. He is the brother of Diamondback.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Cutthroat (comics)
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cutthroat
Noun
- A murderer who slits the throats of his victims.
- An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
- A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
Adjective
- Involving the cutting of throats
- Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.
- He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner.
- Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog
- Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.
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