cutting up
Dividing into pieces
Cutting up describes boisterous, attention-seeking behavior—clowning around, making jokes, acting silly: The kids were cutting up in the back of the classroom.
It can also mean speaking critically about someone: They were cutting up the new manager behind her back.
As a noun phrase, a cutting-up is the act of cutting something into pieces.
- choppingCutting into pieces
- chopping upCutting into pieces
- carveCut to shape
- dividingSeparating into parts
- dissectingMethodically cutting to examine
antics · shenanigans · clowning · hijinks · paper cutouts · slicing · tomfoolery · monkey business · horseplay · buffoonery · dicing · mincing · montage · shredding · snipping · goofing · goofing off · fooling around
- mischiefmischief, hijinks, antics, pranks, antic
- tomfoolerysilliness, foolery, clownery, clownishness, goofing off
- horseplayroughhousing, hijinks, antics, horseplay, clowning around
- messing aroundfooling, goofing, goofing off, horsing around, messing with
- distributingdistributing, dispensing, allocating, apportioning, doling out
cutting upassembling
Fitting parts together
putting together · joining · combining · piecing together · uniting
cut, cutting, cuts, cut up, uncut, cutter, undercut, cutters, short cut