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cutups

noun

plural of cutup
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as in comedians

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as in carousers

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  1. comedians
  2. merrymakers
  3. jokesters
  4. buffoons
  5. clowns
  6. vices
Noun
  • Could the comedians have listed tickets for $200 a pop and still packed the ferry?
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Three decades into his career, Lawrence is helping the next generation of comedians.
    — Ryan P. C. Trimble, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of comedians
Noun
  • But her gamboling merrymakers, hammy showgirls, and blithe flaneurs insist otherwise.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Surveying a roomful of merrymakers during my visit, amid noise that could be an OSHA violation, Rodrigue cracks a small smile.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
Definition of merrymakers
Noun
  • There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.
    — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Definition of jokesters
Noun
  • The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But times have changed, and this team of buffoons is forced to grapple with changing industry ethics and sensationalist journalism in its transition, all while Ron faces an identity crisis that challenges his bravado, his massive ego.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of buffoons
Noun
  • Because some of them are showing up to the game looking like clowns.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The excessiveness of Ken Russell, Joe Coleman, Tasha Tudor, clowns, migraines, Priscilla Presley, and the Winchester Mystery House.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of clowns
Noun
  • The latter track takes overt inspiration from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, as Jepsen beckons her love to engage in life’s vices with her, like marring bedsheets with fruit stains and dashing nude through the garden.
    — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Holden eagerly rebels against Pencey Prep, gets the boot, and flees to New York City, a place with its own vices and hazards, but without the sort of propaganda and pretense that obscure the school’s dark underside.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of vices
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“Cutups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutups. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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