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Definition of Cut-up
1. Noun. Someone who plays practical jokes on others.
Generic synonyms: Bad Hat, Mischief-maker, Trouble Maker, Troublemaker, Troubler
Derivative terms: Hoax, Prank, Trick, Trick
Definition of Cut-up
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of cutup) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut-up
Literary usage of Cut-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Cut up fat, to (common), to leave at one's death a good estate. ... I'm not so
sorry, after all, that they cut up rough, and ploughed me. ..."
2. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"Missouri risings.— Pope's coat and papers captured.—Cut up at Manassas.—Clothing
captured of the enemy. AUGUST IST. ..."
3. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"... plenty, if one cut does not suffice, plenty remains to come at again ; CUT
UP, to mortify, to criticise severely, or expose ; CUT UP SHINES, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"He was induced, he says, to cut up Mr Croly, ; mock ignorance of the reviewer is
rendered quite comical by the naivete of i because he is an obscure and ..."
5. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Death of Captain Sparkes. — Extension of the Insurrection. — Checked. — Many
Parties cut up. — Troops penetrate into the Hills. ..."
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