cutup
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cutup
- /ˈkʌtˌʌp/
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Deverbal from cut up.
noun cutups · cut-up
- Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes. Near-synonyms: class clown; good-time Charlie; prankster
- 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.
