Cut-throat
# 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", 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
