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: a fine-tooth saw with a blade under tension in a frame that is used for cutting hard materials (such as metal)
hacksaw
verb
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Vast expanses of aluminum panels and budget glass, slabs that look like they were drawn with a hacksaw, façades checkered with air conditioners, stretches of dead street frontage—the whole neighborhood looks like a first draft.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
Signals from the White House suggest the latter, as does the fact of the U.S. trade surplus with Brazil, which should in principle have spared Brazil from Trump’s tariff hacksaw.
—Hussein Kalout, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Sauls confirms the hacksaw kill — where Art sawed someone in half from her nether regions — will appear, along with new kills that resulted from working with director Damien Leone.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Musk has been at the center of Trump’s hacksaw to the federal government this week.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 5 Feb. 2025
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
Signals from the White House suggest the latter, as does the fact of the U.S. trade surplus with Brazil, which should in principle have spared Brazil from Trump’s tariff hacksaw.
—Hussein Kalout, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Sauls confirms the hacksaw kill — where Art sawed someone in half from her nether regions — will appear, along with new kills that resulted from working with director Damien Leone.
—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Musk has been at the center of Trump’s hacksaw to the federal government this week.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Hacksaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacksaw. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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hacksaw
noun
hack·saw
ˈhak-ˌsȯ 
: a saw used for cutting hard materials (as metal) that consists of a frame holding a blade with small teeth
hacksaw
verb
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