cut up
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To cut upward.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- To divide into portions well or badly; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc.
- Comprise a particular selection of runners.
Adjective
- Having been cut into smaller pieces.
- Wounded with multiple lacerations.
- Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.
- Muscular and lean.
Noun
- Alternative spelling of cutup.
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