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cut someone up1 informal (Of a driver) overtake someone and pull in too closely in front of them: he was threatened with a baseball bat after cutting up another driver...- It was pouring with rain that day and I was trying to turn right down an alley off Earls Court Road when suddenly a man pulled out right in front of me and cut me up.
- Many a time I have had to batter the side of the bus scaring myself and the passengers inside to warn the bus driver that he was cutting me up and was about to smear me across the pavement.
- I consider myself to be a concerned citizen, so if a driver cuts me up or behaves in a manner that I consider to be irresponsible, I should flash my lights and attempt to make him, or her, pull over and explain to them the error of their ways.
2North American informal Criticize someone severely: my kids cut him up about his appetite all the time...- Finally, after I got through with him, he took it out on Cory by cutting her up.
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