cutting room

noun

Definition of cutting room

: a room where film or videotape is edited —often used attributively in cutting-room floor to describe something removed or discarded in or as if in editing a film

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Recent Examples of cutting room from the Web

The state-of-the-art midcentury modern building had a big, airy storefront, two smokers, a huge meat-cutting room and office space.

— laura demarco, cleveland.com, "End of an era: Cleveland's beloved Sausage Shoppe to close after 80 years (photos)," 25 Mar. 2018
At one point, Mitch McConnell resorted to tweeting out cutting room-floor dialogue from the climactic final scene of a movie about an elite hostage negotiating team.

— jay willis, GQ, "The Government Shutdown, Explained: Why the Democrats Walked Away Empty-Handed," 23 Jan. 2018
The following winter, Seghesio spent a month with Cecchini; the first two days consisted of sweeping and mopping before Seghesio was promoted to the meat-cutting room and given a short course in whole-animal butchery.

— janet fletcher, San Francisco Chronicle, "Sonoma County winemaker trades viticulture for sausage making," 17 Jan. 2018

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