cut-in: Meaning and Definition of

cut-in

1. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity: We will insert a cut-in of the letter as she reads it.
2. a commercial or other announcement inserted by a local station into a network broadcast.
3. the act of cutting in, as on a dancing couple.

cu•tin

1. a transparent, waxy substance constituting, together with cellulose, the cuticle of plants.