cut in
phrasal verbcut in
- if a motor or an engine cuts in, it starts working
- Emergency generators cut in.
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- (especially North American English) (British English usually push in)to go in front of other people who are waiting in a way that is rude and unfair
- He cut in ahead of me in the grocery line.
cut in (on somebody/something)
- to interrupt somebody when they are speaking synonym butt in (on somebody/something)
- She kept cutting in on our conversation.
- + speech ‘Forget it!’ she cut in.
- (of a vehicle or its driver) to move suddenly in front of another vehicle, leaving little space between the two vehiclesTopics Transport by car or lorryc2
cut somebody in (on something)
- (informal) to give somebody a share of the profit in a business or an activity