Cutup

Quick meaning: Cutup is a noun meaning Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.

Meaning

Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.

More Meanings

1. (literature) A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: class clown; good-time Charlie; prankster

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.

Although Dek can be a cutup, his explanation for his obsessive search for the truth — “It was about respect” — reveals the bedrock of decency that makes him a seriously good guy.

'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.'

Word Forms

• cutups
• cut-up

Synonyms for cutup

Depending on context, synonyms include prankster.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wag, card, imp, cut-up, cutter, cutterman.

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