cut up

1.  Divide into smaller parts, break the continuity of, as in These meetings have cut up my whole day. [c. 1800]
2.  Severely censure or criticize, as in The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly. [Mid-1700s]
3.  be cut up. Be distressed or saddened, as in I was terribly cut up when she left. [Mid-1800s] Charles Dickens used this idiom in A Christmas Carol (1844): "Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event."
4.  Behave in a playful, comic, or boisterous way, as in On the last night of camp the children usually cut up. [Late 1800s]
5.  cut up rough. Act in a rowdy, angry, or violent way, as in After a beer or two the boys began to cut up rough. [Slang; first half of 1800s]

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v

Definition: be rowdy
Antonyms: be serious

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IN BRIEF: n. - Someone who plays practical jokes on others.

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The verb has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: cut to pieces
  Synonym: carve

Meaning #2: destroy or injure severely
  Synonyms: mutilate, mangle

Meaning #3: separate into isolated compartments or categories
  Synonyms: compartmentalize, compartmentalise

Meaning #4: significantly cut up a manuscript
  Synonym: hack

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The adjective cut up has one meaning:

Meaning #1: cut into pieces

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