cut up
Mince into pieces
Cut up means to divide something into pieces by cutting: She cut up the vegetables for the stew.
As an adjective, cut up describes emotional distress: He was really cut up about losing his job.
A cut-up is a person who clowns around or acts silly to get laughs.
To cut up can also mean to criticize harshly or, in older slang, to misbehave boisterously.
- diceMarked cubes for chance
- slice and diceCut into small pieces
- carveCut to shape
- shredTorn fragment
- knifeSharp cutting utensil
mince · mangle · distraught · chop · dismember · slice · grief-stricken · devastated · act out · punchline · in stitches · distress · upset · antics · inconsolable · comedic · divide · slash
- broken apartapart, asunder, broken, fragmented, in bits
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- horseplayroughhousing, hijinks, antics, horseplay, clowning around
- putting on an actput on an act, pretend, fake it, masquerade, sham
cut upwhole
Full and undivided
intact · uncut · undivided · assembled · put together
cut upuntroubled
Free from disturbance
composed · unfazed · unbothered · unperturbed · calm
cut, up, cutting, cuts, uncut, cutter, cutters, recut, recutting