Derived Uses
- Familiarity with descriptions and images of sawed-off shotguns via crime reports in the public media has led to "sawed-off" being used sometimes colloquially as "small or stripped version of"; there is an example in Daimler Armoured Car#Variants.
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Famous quotes containing the word derived:
“A nation’s domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.”
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