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
   • 'I think I should mention, Candy,' said Mrs. Chasen, 'that Harold does has his eccentric moments.' 'Oh, yes!' said Candy, finally comprehending. 'That's all right. I've got a brother who's a real cut-up too.'1971, Collin Higgins, Harold and Maude, page 47

   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