Synonyms of cutting up

cutting up

verb

present participle of cut up

as in horsing around

to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior

high-spirited cousins who cut up at every family gathering

Synonyms & Similar Words

• horsing around
• acting up
• showing off
• clowning (around)
• fooling around
• monkeying (around)
• carrying on
• reveling
• showboating
• roaring
• hotdogging
• skylarking
• misbehaving
• romping
• cavorting
• capering
• frisking
• gamboling
• rollicking
• larking
• frolicking
• roughhousing
• carousing
• mafficking
• wassailing
• disporting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cutting up

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. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 June 2026

Always cutting up and making memories. — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026

In response, staff proposed cutting up to five meetings per commission in the next fiscal year, along with other cost-saving measures such as freezing community ambassador stipends, to help close the city’s projected $66 million budget gap. — Sacbee.com, 19 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

Scalping the lawn can assist doveweed's spread by cutting up pieces that root all over the lawn. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026

Meanwhile, as all of this is happening, Meredith is cutting up with the other ladies at the spa, without a care in the world. — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025

Ford is planning on cutting up to 1,000 roles in electric-vehicle production in Germany. — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025

Proposition 50 would turn back the clock of progress, cutting up our neighborhoods for political gain and silencing the very voices that fought hardest for fairness. — Bernadette Suarez, Oc Register, 15 Sep. 2025