cutthroat

cutthroatnoun/ˈkʌtθɹəʊt/

• 1

  A murderer who slits the throats of victims.

• 2

  An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.

  • The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.
• 3

  A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.

cutthroatadj/ˈkʌtθɹəʊt/

• 1

  Involving the cutting of throats.

• 2

  Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.

  • He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner.
• 3

  Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog.

  • Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.
  • More specifically, Scrabblers are diehard, competitive, and occasionally cutthroat players who treat the game like it's chess or baseball...

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• cutthroat compound