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What is a paper cut?

What is a paper cut? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wound caused by a piece of paper or any thin, sharp material which can slice through a person's skin.
  2. Any minor harm.
  3. (film and video editing) A text-based description of the cuts to be made in raw footage to make finished video.
  4. A decorative ornament made by artful cutting of paper, as into silhouettes.
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Simple hurts like stubbing his toe or getting a paper cut throbbed for hours.
The roof was made from sand paper cut and painted to resemble slates.
In manner she was a little like Agatha Christie's detective, Jane Marple, apparently a bit sweet and scatty, in reality sharp as a paper cut.
Sometimes a pair of white gloves, or paper cut to the shape of gloves, was hung beneath the garland.
It was hard to tell which was more painful: the divorce papers or the paper cut.
Description: A worker at the Fraser mill in Madawaska, Maine, is using a paper cutter to make a straight paper cut.

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