: a person who clowns or acts boisterously
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.
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Use saws to cut up larger branches before disposal, while flagging and avoiding anything dangerous.
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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
When the singing was done Ma Binney brought me back to her tent and cut up a tomato, put it between two slices of bread, and served it to me on a china plate taken from a wooden chest next to her bed-roll.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
Use saws to cut up larger branches before disposal, while flagging and avoiding anything dangerous.
—Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 15 Mar. 2026
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“Cutup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutup. Accessed 22 Mar. 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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