Definition of "cut up" [cut up]

• To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections. (verb)
• To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting. (verb)
• To distress mentally or emotionally. (verb)
• To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism. (verb)
• To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc. (verb)

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• "On the morning we left on the Dolceacqua excursion, Juliana and I walked into town for brioches, Amanda cut up strawberries and melon, and out on the patio we made a feast of the creamy Sterzing yogurt we all liked, strong coffee for the adults, brioches with chocolate, jelly, or a lemony cream filling, and glasses of pineapple juice poured from a box with the ingredients printed in twelve languages."
• "I could take out the wife while you get the tuxedo, tie up your pops, cut up some magazines, and make a note for the police—"
• "Snow felt special walking out of the store with wrapped brownpaper parcels under her arm; she was already planning to use some of the paper to cook fish in and carefully cut up the rest for letter paper."