Cutup

noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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."

Synonyms

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;agitatorbad boybananaboogerbuffoon

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

Etymology

Deverbal from cut up.

Related phrases

cut uppractical joke

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