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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Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
You and Ricci, the two biggest cutups in San Antonio radio.
—Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Jan. 2026
Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2026
Or mixed up the sausage filling and Justin’s potato into a kind of hash brown patty, fried them off like Brittany did with the livermush crostini last week, cut up the collard greens into ribbons, and put that on top of the potato and pork?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
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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
You and Ricci, the two biggest cutups in San Antonio radio.
—Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Jan. 2026
Verb
On Sunday, with her lip cut up and puffy, Barber thanked Grasso for the rematch.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2026
Or mixed up the sausage filling and Justin’s potato into a kind of hash brown patty, fried them off like Brittany did with the livermush crostini last week, cut up the collard greens into ribbons, and put that on top of the potato and pork?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Cutup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutup. Accessed 5 Apr. 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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