A point or limit at which something stops, ends, or is no longer allowed or included, or a pair of shorts made by cutting off the legs of long pants.
Compound word from 'cut' (from Old English 'cyttan') and 'off' (from Old English 'of'). First used in the 1800s for the point at which something is cut short, later applied to clothing made by cutting.
Cutoffs are one of fashion's beautiful accidents—originally something people only wore because their jeans were worn out, they became an iconic summer style. The messier and more frayed, the better.
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