cut up

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• v. To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
• v. To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
• v. To distress mentally or emotionally.
• v. To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.
• v. 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.
• v. To aggressively move in front of another vehicle while driving. US: cut off.
• adj. Having been cut into smaller pieces.
• adj. Wounded with multiple lacerations.
• adj. Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.

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• adj. cut into pieces
• v. separate into isolated compartments or categories
• v. destroy or injure severely
• v. significantly cut up a manuscript
• v. cut to pieces