cut up; cutting up; cuts up
2
: to subject to hostile criticism : censure
1
: to undergo being cut up
2
: to behave in a comic, boisterous, or unruly manner : clown
Examples of cutup in a Sentence
Noun
In school he was always a cutup, telling jokes and acting silly.
Verb
high-spirited cousins who cut up at every family gathering
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Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Such systems also house analytics programming, sections where mock drafts are monitored to gauge external chatter about players, video libraries of film cutups, charts with testing results and more advanced metrics such as play speed.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Misael eating meat alone, cutting up pieces with an enormous knife while barely lit by the flames in front of him, and, sporadically, almost-silent lightning bursts in the distant background.
—Vadim Rizov, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
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Noun
Yet as a child he was considered more clever than cutup.
—Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Such systems also house analytics programming, sections where mock drafts are monitored to gauge external chatter about players, video libraries of film cutups, charts with testing results and more advanced metrics such as play speed.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Verb
The victim described, matter-of-factly, how her trafficker had cut up jalapeños and tossed them into a toilet before banging her head against the inside of the bowl and dunking it into the water.
—Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Misael eating meat alone, cutting up pieces with an enormous knife while barely lit by the flames in front of him, and, sporadically, almost-silent lightning bursts in the distant background.
—Vadim Rizov, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
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“Cutup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutup. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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cutup
1 of 2 noun
cut·up
ˈkət-ˌəp 
: a person who clowns or acts noisily
cut up
2 of 2 verbˈkət-ˈəp
: to act like a clown
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