Usually means: Shortened barrel for increased concealability.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word sawed-off:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sawed-off: Merriam-Webster
  2. sawed-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sawed-off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sawed-off, sawed-off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sawed-off: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sawed-Off, Sawed-off, sawed-off: Wordnik
  7. sawed-off: Wiktionary
  8. sawed-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sawed-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sawed-off: Dictionary.com
  11. sawed-off: Rhymezone
  12. sawed-off: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sawed-off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. sawed-off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. sawed-off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sawed-off, sawed-off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sawed-off: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sawed-off)

adjective:  Shortened by sawing.
adjective:  (slang) Short, as though truncated.
noun:  (slang, US) A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.

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