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cut-up

cut-up is the alternative spelling of cutup.

Meaning of cutup

Noun

cutup (plural cutups)

  1. Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.
    • Near-synonyms: class clown; good-time Charlie; prankster
  2. A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.
    • Jeff Lawton's Truck Stop (1969), which read like a William Burroughs cut-up novel and was printed in a skewed, rotated, and oddly spaced type.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 118

Forms of cut-up

pluralcut-ups

Origin of cut-up

Deverbal from cut up.

Questions about cut-up

What is cut-up the alternative spelling of?
Cut-up is the alternative spelling of cutup.

Words near cut-up in the dictionary

  1. cut-throat razor
  2. cut-throat razors
  3. cut-throats
  4. cut-through
  5. cut-throughs
  6. cut-up
  7. cut-ups
  8. Cuta
  9. cutability
  10. cutable
  11. cutacoo

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