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cutup

noun
/ˈkʌtˌʌp/

Etymology

Deverbal from cut up.

Definitions

  1. Someone who cuts up

    Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.

    • Near-synonyms: class clown; good-time Charlie; prankster
    • 'I think I should mention, Candy,' said Mrs. Chasen, 'that Harold does has his eccentric moments.' 'Oh, yes!' said Candy, finally comprehending. 'That's all right. I've got a brother who's a real cut-up too.'

  2. A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a…

    A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.

    • Jeff Lawton's Truck Stop (1969), which read like a William Burroughs cut-up novel and was printed in a skewed, rotated, and oddly spaced type.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA