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cut up

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Verb

  1. To cut upward.
  2. To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
  3. To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
  4. To distress mentally or emotionally.
  5. To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.
  6. 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.
  7. To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
  8. To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
  9. 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.
  10. Comprise a particular selection of runners.

Adjective

  1. Having been cut into smaller pieces.
  2. Wounded with multiple lacerations.
  3. Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.
  4. Muscular and lean.

Noun

  1. Alternative spelling of cutup.

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