Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Lower
Lower verb - To cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally.
Both terms in one sentence
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The video for "House of Gold", which has Tyler and Josh playing the song with their lower torsos cut off and Tyler floating in the air.
Source: Music / Twenty One Pilots - Something of an inversion, as it's the upper-class Naveen who has to "win" the lower-class Tiana, and he's been cut off from the family fortune in any case.
Source: Uptown Girl - BloodStorm was more of the same, but now you could cut off someone's lower body.
Source: So Bad Its Good / Video Games
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Lower and Cut off. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut_off/lower
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Lower or Cut off. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut_off/lower.
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