See cutthroat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2015 May 22, Stan Carey, “The Kick-butt World of Cutthroat Compounds”, in Slate Lexicon Valley:",
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"lang": "Azerbaijani",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ka",
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"word": "ყასაბი"
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"text": "Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.",
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"ref": "2010, Kate Stevens, Freak Nation, page 159:",
"text": "More specifically, Scrabblers are diehard, competitive, and occasionally cutthroat players who treat the game like it's chess or baseball...",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very competitive, dog-eat-dog",
"word": "mörderisch"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very competitive, dog-eat-dog",
"word": "halsabschneiderisch"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "rücksichtslos"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "very competitive, dog-eat-dog",
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"code": "es",
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"word": "canallesco"
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