1. Someone who plays practical jokes on others
   "The office cut-up replaced all the pens with crayons";
   - prankster, trickster, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker

1. Cut or slice into pieces
   "Father cut up the ham";
   - carve
    
2. Damage or injure severely
   "The madman cuts up art work";
   - mutilate, mangle
    
3. Separate into isolated compartments or categories
   "The developer cut up the land into small lots";
   - compartmentalize, compartmentalise [Brit]
    
4. Edit or reduce a text severely, often in a way that damages its integrity or flow
   "They cut up the novel, removing entire chapters";
   - hack
    
5. [Brit] Suddenly move in front of another moving vehicle
   "The taxi cut up the bus, causing it to brake sharply"
    
6. [informal] Criticize harshly
   "The critics really cut up his latest movie"

1. Cut into pieces
   "The cut up vegetables were ready for the stir-fry"
    
2. [informal] Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
   "He was cut up about losing his job";
   - disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried

Derived forms: cut up, cutting up, cut-ups, cuts up

See also: cut, troubled

Type of: bad hat [informal], cut, damage, disunite, divide, edit, mischief-maker, part, redact, separate, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler

Encyclopedia: Cut-up