slang. In phr. To cut or make one’s lucky: to get away, escape, decamp.

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1834.  M. M. G. Dowling, Othello Travestie, I. ii. 7.

          IAGO.  ’Tis true, Othello, you do not want for pluck, he
’S in such a rage—you’d better cut your lucky.

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1837.  Dickens, Pickw., x. Wot’s the use o’ runnin’ arter a man as has made his lucky, and got to t’other end of the Borough by this time.

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1859.  Lever, Davenport Dunn, xiv. 119. Simpson, of the Bays, has cut his lucky this morning.

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