cut-up

Speech parts

1. cut-up - Noun

2. cut-up - Adjective

3. cut-up - Verb

4. cut-up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

cut to pieces

cut into pieces

separate into isolated compartments or categories

significantly cut up a manuscript

destroy or injure severely

someone who plays practical jokes on others

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

cut up

Synonyms

hack carve mangle prankster mutilate trickster hoaxer practical joker tricker compartmentalize joker harlequin josh mime jester
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Antonyms

strong whole uncut adore respect happy
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Hypernyms

separate cut damage divide part edit

Hyponyms

shave fillet filet

Examples

Father carved the ham Source: Internet

You cannot compartmentalize your life like this! Source: Internet

The madman mutilates art work Source: Internet

According to Adam Hochschild, author of a book on the Congo rubber terror, Lumumba's body was later cut up and dissolved in acid by two Belgian agents. Source: Internet

Afterwards, their doughy chests were opened, their "hearts" taken out and, finally, their bodies cut up and eaten. Source: Internet

After the publication of Naked Lunch, a book whose creation was to a certain extent the result of a series of contingencies, Burroughs was exposed to Brion Gysin 's cut-up technique at the Beat Hotel in Paris in October 1959. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cut-throat cut-throat competition cut-throat razor cutability cutacoo cutan