cut up
verb- To cut upward.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections. · With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting. · The attackers cut him up pretty bad.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism. · The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.
- 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. · We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class.
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- 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.
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The Barrys must feel cut up.
He’ll be cut up over this, for the man has been in his service for years and was a good servant.
Danglars took the knife in one hand and the fork in the other, and was about to cut up the fowl.
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