cutups

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

   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