cut up
US— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
to behave in a very active and silly way in order to make people laugh:
There are a couple of kids who are always cutting up in class.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- faff
- faff about/around
- fart
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- kid around
- mess
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss (sb) about/around
- play around
- spectacle
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