cut up

En español: picar, trinchar, destazar, retazar

1. To cut upward. (intransitive)
2. To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections. (transitive) · With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying.
3. To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting. (informal, transitive) · The attackers cut him up pretty bad.
4. To distress mentally or emotionally. (transitive)
5. To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism. (dated, transitive) · The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.
6. 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. (intransitive) · We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class.
7. To disintegrate; to break into pieces. (intransitive)
8. 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. (dated, slang)