cut-up
Always causing mischief
A cut-up is someone who clowns around or acts silly for attention, especially in settings where seriousness is expected: He was always the class cut-up.
The term is mildly affectionate rather than harsh—cut-ups amuse more than they annoy.
As an adjective, cut-up means deeply upset: She was really cut-up about losing the job.
Assembled mixed-media artwork
- montageAssembled sequence of images
- bricolageConstruction from available materials
- assemblageCollected group of things
- juxtapositionAdjacent contrasting placement
fragmentation · randomize · scramble · shuffle · splice · rearrange · recombine · aleatory
Lacking orderly sequence
- piecemealIn separate stages
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
- disconnectedSeparated from a source
- incoherentLacking logical connection
jumbled · chaotic · haphazard · fractured · shattered · splintered · disassembled · broken
- Naked LunchFragmentary Beat novel
- proseUnversified language
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
passage · excerpt · paragraph · sentence · word salad · stream-of-consciousness · automatic writing · appropriation
Rejection of conventional aesthetics
- readymadePrepared in advance
- Cabaret VoltaireAvant-garde Zurich venue
- ZurichSwiss financial center
- anarchicWithout governing structure
anti-bourgeois · provocation · absurdity · nihilism · subversion · nonsense · simultaneity · chance
Satirical imitation
- satireMockery exposing vice
- absurdistBeliever in cosmic meaninglessness
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- spoofComic exaggerated imitation
irreverent · nonsensical · Monty Python · surreal humor · deadpan · randomness · non sequitur · bizarre
Not awake or aware
- dreamscapeImagined realm during sleep
- automatismInvoluntary mechanical behavior
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- irrationalLacking sound judgment
metamorphosis · dislocation · disorientation · hallucinatory · uncanny · strange · bizarre · unexpected
collage
Assembled mixed-media artwork
- montageAssembled sequence of images
- bricolageConstruction from available materials
- assemblageCollected group of things
juxtaposition · fragmentation · randomize · scramble · shuffle · splice · rearrange · recombine · aleatory · nonlinear
disjointed
Lacking orderly sequence
- piecemealIn separate stages
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
- disconnectedSeparated from a source
incoherent · jumbled · chaotic · haphazard · fractured · shattered · splintered · disassembled · broken · random
Burroughs
- Naked LunchFragmentary Beat novel
- proseUnversified language
- poetryMetrical literary composition
manuscript · passage · excerpt · paragraph · sentence · word salad · stream-of-consciousness · automatic writing · appropriation · remix
anti-art
Rejection of conventional aesthetics
- readymadePrepared in advance
- Cabaret VoltaireAvant-garde Zurich venue
- ZurichSwiss financial center
anarchic · anti-bourgeois · provocation · absurdity · nihilism · subversion · nonsense · simultaneity · chance · randomness
parody
Satirical imitation
spoof · irreverent · nonsensical · Monty Python · surreal humor · deadpan · randomness · non sequitur · bizarre · unexpected
unconscious
Not awake or aware
- dreamscapeImagined realm during sleep
- automatismInvoluntary mechanical behavior
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
irrational · metamorphosis · dislocation · disorientation · hallucinatory · uncanny · strange · bizarre · unexpected · free association
- compilationsanthology, compilation, anthologies, collection, collected stories
- remixesremix, mashup, mix, extended mix, club mix
- composition techniquescomposing, arranging, orchestration, harmonization, instrumentation
- experimental narrativemetafiction, nonlinear plot, fragmented narrative, unreliable narrator, stream of consciousness
cut-upwallflower
Shy person avoiding socializing
introvert · shrinking violet · stick-in-the-mud · wet blanket · killjoy
cut, up, cutting, output, cuts, uncut, cutter, cutoff, cutlet