Usually means: Ruthlessly competitive, aggressive, or merciless.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut-throat, cut-throat: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Cut-throat, cut-throat: Wordnik
  3. cut-throat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. cut-throat: Wiktionary
  5. Cut-throat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. cut-throat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. cut-throat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut-throat: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut-throat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cut-throat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cut-throat)

noun:  Alternative spelling of cutthroat [A murderer who slits the throats of victims.]
adjective:  Alternative spelling of cutthroat [Involving the cutting of throats.]

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