as in to act up
to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior
high-spirited cousins who cut up at every family gathering
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Recent Examples of cut up
Caroline Cummings,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
Using unseen footage from Presley’s 1969 to 1976 Las Vegas residency, the movie plays the hits – plus The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel – but also showcases his sense of humor, quipping with crowds and cutting up with bandmates.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
There is a video cutup that has frequented social media over the last year featuring all of Edwards’ missed shots at the end of close games.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
23 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Left on the kitchen counter were cut up limes and rhubarb custard pie.
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Caroline Cummings,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
Using unseen footage from Presley’s 1969 to 1976 Las Vegas residency, the movie plays the hits – plus The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel – but also showcases his sense of humor, quipping with crowds and cutting up with bandmates.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
Noun
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.
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Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
There is a video cutup that has frequented social media over the last year featuring all of Edwards’ missed shots at the end of close games.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut up
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Currently, Screen Time often acts up and just cuts off access to all apps, whether it’s supposed to or not.
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Baye continued acting up until 2023.
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Once the full Wales family was assembled on the Buckingham Palace balcony, Louis continued his annual tradition of playing jokester.
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She was described as a jokester, a loving person and someone people often felt safe around, according to her family.
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Take William Shakespeare, who is often portrayed as a carouser, downing pints while exchanging barbs with his fellow writers, cheating on his wife with both men and women, passionately engaging his quill to reimagine the very nature of the human being.
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On Monday, OpenAI will host its first-ever Cannes Lions event a few blocks away from the Palais where the awards are given, along the boulevard where the major tech players and ad holding companies have traditionally set up shop to show off to clients.
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The actress showed off micro bangs and a chin-grazing chop for her role as a manager.
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In a TikTok video shared on Monday, June 30, the comedian and podcast host, 34, spoke about getting Dysport, an injectable neurotoxin, in her masseter muscles as a TMJ treatment.
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Dozens of people gathered at the courthouse in solidarity with the comedian on Friday, chanting anti‑government slogans, according to the opposition‑leaning newspaper Cumhuriyet.
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Spoilers Ahead Kara is introduced as a reckless party animal, who spends her time seeking out planets orbiting red suns, to weaken her superpowered metabolism and become intoxicated.
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This deal revived the party animal in me.
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Ortiz navigated past 17 other horses around the final turn and made a hard charge down the stretch.
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Ortiz navigated past 17 other horses around the final turn and made a hard charge down the stretch.
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Her madcap, occasionally ultra-violent quest leads us down dark alleys in Chinatown and into chic midtown hotel bars.
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After the Great Splintering that seemed to occur after the pandemic, digicore artists are dropping posse cuts and random madcap loosies with each other again.
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“Cut up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut%20up. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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