Cut-throat

Cut-throat, cutthroat or cut throat or their plurals may refer to:

• A murderer; one who performs the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human
• Cut throat competition, for example a price race that drives competitors out of the market

Nature

• Cutthroat eel, a family, Synaphobranchidae, of eels found worldwide in temperate and tropical seas
• Cutthroat trout, a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family of order Salmoniformes
• Cut-throat finch, a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa
• An alternative name for the rose-breasted grosbeak

Geography

• Cutthroat Lake, a lake in Utah
• Cut Throat City, a region of New Orleans, Louisiana
• Cutthroat Gap, site of Cutthroat Gap Massacre, an 1833 massacre in the Wichita Mountains

Books

• Cutthroat (comics), a comic book character, a supervillain in Marvel Comics' main shared universe
• Cutthroat (novel), a novel in the Special X series by Michael Slade
• The Cutthroat, a novel in the Isaac Bell series by Clive Cussler
• The Cut-throat Celts, a book in the Horrible Histories series published by Scholastic

Film

• Cain's Cutthroats, a 1971 western-themed exploitation film
• Cutthroat Island, a 1995 pirate-themed action film
• The Cut-Throats, a 1969 film directed by John Hayes
• Cutthroats, 1994 film by Michael Legge

Television

• The Challenge: Cutthroat, season 20 of the MTV reality game show
• "Cut Throat" (The Shield), a season 4 episode of The Shield
• Cutthroat Kitchen, a cooking show on Food Network
• Cutthroat (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character

Music

• The Cutthroats 9, a band
• "Cut Throat", a song by Kittie from their 2009 album In the Black
• "Cut-Throat", a song by Sepultura from their 1996 album Roots
• "Cut Throat", a song by Death Grips from their 2011 mixtape Exmilitary
• "Cutthroat" (song), a song by Imagine Dragons from their 2021 album, Mercury – Act 1
• Operation: Cut-Throat, Hidden in Plain View's second EP

Games

• Cutthroats (video game), a 1984 computer game
• Cutthroat: The Shadow Wars, a fantasy RPG

• Cutthroat (pool), a three-player pocket billiards game

Other uses

• Denver Cutthroats, a minor league ice hockey team from Denver, Colorado
• Cut-Throat DDT, a wrestling move
• Castner's Cutthroats, Alaskan U.S. Army irregulars who helped defeat the Japanese in the World War II Battle of the Aleutian Islands
• Cut-throat razor, a reusable knife blade used for shaving hair