cut away 

1. cutting your main canopy away and releasing your reserve canopy when skydiving

2. quitting your job, ditching your home or apartment, and moving to join a small, specific group of people in order to live and/or work in the sport of skydiving

1. I had spinning line twists and could not kick out of them so I cut away my main.

2. I cut away from my life to live on the drop zone.

cut away by ashproh December 6, 2011

cutaway scene 

A joke, mostly within the tv show Family Guy, that is set up as a flashback and has very little, if anything, to do with the main storyline of the episode.

The cutaway scene about the Asian driver was very funny even though it did have anything to do with the story.

cutaway scene by B.D. Landry January 17, 2011

cutaway 

To cut an elastic strap typically referred to men or women underwear and fling the offensive smelling and saturated material away in order to prevent saturation of the pants.

When Niles shit his pants, he was left with no other option other than run to the restroom and perform a cutaway.

cutaway by the mechanic named art April 26, 2022

cutaway 

Skydiving term used when main parachute is not functional and disconnected so the reserve parachute can open in clear air.

Ones first cut away is usually followed by a case

"Dammit, I just had my first cutaway, now I have to case because I saved my life"

cutaway by spetzreborn November 13, 2011