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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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Description: A worker at the Fraser mill in Madawaska, Maine, is using a paper cutter to make a straight paper cut.
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.
He took a sheet of graph paper cut it up and pasted down slightly turning on itself.
The roof was made from sand paper cut and painted to resemble slates.
To be courted with a fresh-nibbed pen, and paper cut sonnet-size, instead of by a live man, deserves rebuke.
To dwell on the dearth of bonus material any further would be like rubbing poison oak into a paper cut.

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