cutup
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cutup (plural cutups)
- Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.
- Synonyms: class clown, prankster
- 1971, Collin Higgins, Harold and Maude, page 47:
- '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.'
- 2006 September 29, Ben Brantley, “Bogosian’s Youthful Rage and Alienation, Retrofitted for BlackBerries”, in New York Times:
- Jeff (Daniel Eric Gold), who has whittled his academic pursuits to one course at his local community college, is the Philosopher; his best friend, Tim (Peter Scanavino), a Navy veteran, is the Combustible Alcoholic, and Buff (Mr. Culkin), a stoner skateboarder, is the Cut-Up.
- (literature) A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.
- 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 118:
- 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.