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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cut-up
noun
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▪ She was real cut-up about the hens.
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cut-up

n. (alternative spelling of cutup English)

WordNet
cut-up

n. someone who plays practical jokes on others [syn: prankster, trickster, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker]

Usage examples of "cut-up".

He was trying to feed Barr cut-up steak from a covered dish with a pair of tongs.

Well, never mind,--you may live to be a poor, old, cut-up crittur, like me.

The Duke trainer had tried to address his pain with orthotic supports in his shoe, but Shav preferred his own orthopedics, a cut-up tennis ball.

The food was poor, scraps of cut-up vegetable or fruit peel or bits of gristle, some of it already chewed, sour with the saliva of Skinnies.

He sauteed onions and green pepper, threw in a can of tomatoes, peas, and cut-up ham, and dished it over Minute rice.

Reza was the class clown and cut-up king, sometimes far-out enough to make Celine wonder how he had passed the psychological tests.

Monterey jack cheese, and cut-up slices of the remaining luncheon meat.

She is always wearing things like Day-Glo high-top sneakers, cut-up jeans, off-the-shoulder sweat shirts (sometimes torn), and friendship bracelets.

The heavy impact of the two feet just behind the ball had levelled the hole in which it had lain and had squeezed the ball out so that it was now perfectly teed for an easy shot - for just the easy cut-up shot which had seemed utterly impossible from Goldfinger's lie at The Virgin.