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cut up

verb

to cut into pieces
to inflict injuries on
informal��(usually passive) to affect the feelings of deeply
informal��to subject to severe criticism
informal��(of a driver) to overtake or pull in front of (another driver) in a dangerous manner
informal��to become angry or bad-tempered

noun

informal��a joker or prankster

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Idioms and Phrases

Divide into smaller parts, break the continuity of, as in These meetings have cut up my whole day . [c. 1800]

Severely censure or criticize, as in The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly . [Mid-1700s]

be cut up . Be distressed or saddened, as in I was terribly cut up when she left . [Mid-1800s] Charles Dickens used this idiom in A Christmas Carol (1844): “Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event.”

Behave in a playful, comic, or boisterous way, as in On the last night of camp the children usually cut up . [Late 1800s]

cut up rough . Act in a rowdy, angry, or violent way, as in After a beer or two the boys began to cut up rough . [ Slang ; first half of 1800s]

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Azurá Stevens has grown close to Jackson, frequently appearing in her TikTok videos, dancing and cutting up for an audience of half a million followers.

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These two changes will cut up to 50,000 lower-skilled and care workers coming to the UK over the next year, Cooper said.

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“It’s taking me a second to understand I’m being cut up.”

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Earlier this month, the Unite union said members would be balloted on strike action following reports the institution could cut up to 700 jobs.

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Staff at the University of Dundee are to be balloted on strike action following reports the institution could cut up to 700 jobs.

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