sawed-off shotgun

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   a shotgun with short barrels

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Questions about sawed-off shotgun

What does sawed-off shotgun mean?

sawed-off shotgun means "a shotgun with short barrels".

Is sawed-off shotgun a common word?

sawed-off shotgun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.