cutup /ˈkʌtˌʌp/ noun2 •Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.Although Dek can be a cutup, his explanation for his obsessive search for the truth — “It was about respect” — reveals the bedrock of decency that makes him a seriously good guy. — 2009 •A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.Jeff Lawton's Truck Stop (1969), which read like a William Burroughs cut-up novel and was printed in a skewed, rotated, and oddly spaced type. — 2001 formscutups