title: Cut-throat
text: # 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
  