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1. The first print of a movie after preliminary editing

1. Lacking refinement, cultivation or taste
   "he had rough-cut manners but a first-rate mind";
   - coarse, common, uncouth, vulgar
    
2. Of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing
   - roughhewn

Derived forms: rough cuts

See also: unfinished, unrefined

Type of: film, flick [informal], motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic [informal], picture, picture show

Encyclopedia: Rough cut