Usually means: Abandon situation quickly, avoiding trouble.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word cut and run:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut and run: Merriam-Webster
  2. cut and run: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cut and run: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cut and run: Wiktionary
  5. cut and run: Dictionary.com
  6. Cut and Run (film), Cut and run (disambiguation), Cut and run: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Cut and Run: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. Cut and Run: The Word Detective
  9. Cut and run: Phrase Finder
  10. cut and run: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut and run: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut and run: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cut and run: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cut and run)

verb:  (nautical) To cut the anchor cable and not wait to weigh it.
verb:  (by extension) To hurry away; to escape.
verb:  (military) To abandon a position as quickly as possible.

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