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cut

Date: Oct 18 2007

Themes: Music

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“We cut it in this little hotel in the middle of the woods.”

- Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger on the new song he recorded with Bono from U2. (Rolling Stone)

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

to record; a recording

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Cut is a word that can mean a lot of things. In addition to the usual uses of the word, cutting someone’s hair, or getting cut in your skin from something sharp, directors yell “Cut! That’s a wrap!” when they’re done filming a movie and kids cut class all the time to go make trouble.

What Mick Jagger is talking about is a musical use of the word cut. When you record a song, you can say you cut it. What you produced is a cut. As you can see, in music, cut is both a noun and a verb.
Jagger met up with Bono at a small hotel in the middle of nowhere to cut a song together. A hotel in the woods is an unusual place to record a song, but it was the only place Jagger and Bono could meet up.

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“That’s a great cut, man. I haven’t heard something like that for years.”

“We’re going to have to cut the record at night because the studio costs less that way.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

	recorded by periwinkle.chic
	To make a recording of a song by jpsartre1
	to make a record of a clip by Spoiled-girl
	come across with the inspiration,and finish a song by wym_fz
	to cut: to finish recording audio track by Liliya-22
	here to cut means to record music and edit it ,make it complete and perfect.That is my guess. by martingzh

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Comments

sarakhanna

Morocco

sarakhanna

Morocco

hi i am sara haw rae you

moony-girl

Qatar

good

pergin

Turkey

wow never heard about it before!cut a song!

jojycheung

China

woow, never knew that b4, and it’s really a little complicated, got so many meanings

latinoamazonico

Colombia

I would like to say that this lesson was pretty good, I mean the examples given were so good and explanations great.
I’m gonna try to used them in my daily vocab.