Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Usage example: the majority party cut off debate and forced a vote on the bill
Drop
Drop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Usage example: drop what you're doing and come here
Both terms in one sentence
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Which makes no sense—why fight potentially dozens of them for a single item to drop rather that just using your knife to cut off the body part from the first one you killed?
Source: Random Drop aka: Randomly Drops -
Hector can finish calling him a "little shit"; the second is when Buzz is about to drop off another instance of the S-bomb, only to be cut off by a Death Glare from Kate.
Source: Film / Home Alone -
Once the orbital drop squads break into a hive's interior to destroy the hive controller, they are essentially cut off from reinforcements and supplies and outnumbered at least 100 to 1 by BETA.
Source: Suicide Mission
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