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cut-up, n.
[cut v. 60; in sense 2 from the ppl. adj.]
1. a. An act of cutting up.
1782F. Burney Cecilia ix. i, ‘Why indeed, sir,’ said Hobson, ‘I can't but say it was rather a cut-up.’ 1878M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares xi, It will be a fearful cut-up for the Hartopp girls.
b. orig. U.S. (a) The act of making practical or verbal jokes; clowning. rare. (b) A person who ‘cuts up’ or capers (see cut v. 60 m and o). Also attrib.
1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase ii. 209 Art and tact..are requisite for the cut-up... If the affair is not done up to the point—it is teasing; if beyond—it is horse-play. Ibid., The cut-ups were usually in wet weather. 1882I. M. Rittenhouse Maud (1939) iii. 91 He and the Menagers are the greatest friends imaginable and such cut-ups. 1911R. W. Chambers Common Law v. 157 Jests emanating from the boarding-house cut-up—a blonde young man with rah-rah hair and a brier pipe. 1923R. D. Paine Comr. Rolling Ocean viii. 129 As a college cut-up he was the star comedian of the campus. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas x. 107 Anything for a laugh is your motto. Well, good night, old cut-up. 1960B. Keaton Wonderf. World of Slapstick (1967) 122 We cutups and cute kids only had one bad moment. 1969Listener 16 Jan. 87/2 We have to take his word for most of what we're told in the book's final section; for the cut-ups and the rave-ups, for that wild weekend with ‘Ronnie’ Laing.
2. A kind of hosiery (see quot. 1892).
1845Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 749/1, 6,000 frames making cut-ups, &c., produce 1,960,000 dozens. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Cut-ups, articles made upon steam round-about machines, sometimes in long straight pieces, which are cut up with scissors into the shape of stockings, shirts, or pants, and sewn together by a machine. 1893Westm. Gaz. 10 Mar. 6/3 ‘Cut-ups’ are an inferior class of hosiery turned out by the machine in long straight lengths. |