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Cut-up   /kət-əp/   Listen
Cut-up

noun
1.
Someone who plays practical jokes on others.  Synonyms: hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker, trickster.






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"Cut-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... unwonted and genuine excitement about Robert's marriage. He put aside the languor, ennui, and depression which he felt too easily on most occasions, and, that day at least, he was, as his own servant expressed it, "nervous and cut-up." ...
— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes

... and mixed with stiff, dwarf scrub, which grew in some spots almost to one's waist. There were little rises, and hollows into which the wagons jolted violently, and here and there they must skirt a bluff or strike back into the cut-up trail which traversed it. Toward noon they reached a larger wood, where the trees crowded thick upon the track. When Edgar floundered into it, there appeared to be no bottom. Getting back to the grass, he surveyed the scene with strong disgust; he ...
— Ranching for Sylvia • Harold Bindloss

... from the nearest creek? Our band is a lot nearer salt water than your Cafe de Paris is to France. And, besides, there are only three names for a country band, anyway. If it isn't the Marine Band, it has to be the Military Band, or the Silver Cornet Band. Chet Frazier, who is our village cut-up, says that they named ours the Marine Band years ago, after it had waded out to the cemetery on a wet Memorial Day through our celebrated ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch



Words linked to "Cut-up" :   hoaxer, bad hat, prankster, trouble maker, trickster, mischief-maker, troubler, troublemaker, practical joker



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