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verb

Definition of cut upnext
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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noun

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as in jokester

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as in carouser

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Recent Examples of cut up
Verb
It’s aimed at tasks like neatly cutting up deli meats and cheeses at your picnic or campsite. — New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2026 Cityside, guests can head to the thumping heart of Austin nightlife where the Live Music Capital of the World always has a new favorite act and dance floor to cut up waiting just around the corner. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 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. — 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. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cut up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut up
  1. act up
  2. jokester
  3. carouser
  4. show off
  5. comedian
  6. party animal
  7. horse around
  8. madcap
Verb
  • But sleep was hard to come by, with her daughter’s asthma acting up and the anxiety of the hearing the following day.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Six weeks later, when that integration acts up again, the institutional memory that used to shorten the investigation may not be there.
    — Sanjay Gidwani, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of act up
Noun
  • Daddy Pig Daddy Pig is the father of Peppa, George, and Evie, and a bit of a jokester.
    — Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 27 Sep. 2026
  • He was known to be a jokester in the locker room, jovial but also smart enough to have played almost all five starting roles on an offensive line.
    — PJ Green August 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of jokester
Noun
  • 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.
    — Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
Definition of carouser
Verb
  • As the state’s largest majority-Black city, Memphis is showing off its rich cultural tapestry with the back-and-better-than-ever Memphis Art Museum—the state’s oldest and largest.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Hamilton showed off a beer can that featured an image of Betsy Ross making the American flag.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of show off
Noun
  • Filmmakers, movie stars, producers, writers, musicians, influencers, comedians — more than 200 have been filmed pulling something off Criterion shelves, signaling their tastes.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Huang is a comedian trained in the xiangsheng tradition, a form of Chinese comedic dialogue that relies heavily on wordplay and rhymes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of comedian
Noun
  • Later in life, Belding became known to Screencaps readers as a party animal who got to play in all the best celebrity golf tournaments and serve as the life of the party.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Ballmer, who can often be seen bouncing around like a hyper-caffeinated party animal in the Clippers’ home arena, Intuit Dome, is no shrinking violet — he was known as a ferociously hard-charging, hands-on leader at Microsoft.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of party animal
Verb
  • And lo, that’s how The Godfather wound up horsing around on a bouncy sorta-rap cut with London’s club muse and scene gadfly Normski.
    — Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Also, don’t get too out of control horsing around with friends in the water.
    — John Natale, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of horse around
Noun
  • For the second of two F--- Cancer gigs, Reynoso has racked up a gloriously absurd 13 local bands on one madcap, rapid-fire club bill, where each will swarm the stage rig to plug in and play 10-minute sets before giving way to the next act.
    — Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The fare isn’t noteworthy or unique, except for the onion soup with its madcap, enormous puff pastry lid.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of madcap

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