Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Articles of hosiery, such as stockings, undershirts, etc., cut and shaped out of a web knitted by machinery, and then sewed together and finished by other machines.
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Examples
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As early as the 1920's, members of the Swiss anti-establishment Dada movement practiced cut-ups -- slicing up sections of text, and then randomly juxtaposing segments back together to create absurd poems that dispensed with conventional narratives.
Ben Arogundade: Digitally Deconstructing Shakespeare Ben Arogundade 2011
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He likes the freewheeling style of these courtroom cut-ups, offering them cushy jobs in his upscale firm.
Roush Review: Boys (Franklin & Bash) to Men (Of a Certain Age) 2011
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To present email and text messages as they often feel would create an experimental novel, as if descending from Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs cut-ups.
Joanne McNeil: The Bookfuturist: Where Are the iPhone Addicts and Facebook 'Stalkers' in Contemporary Fiction? Joanne McNeil 2010
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As early as the 1920's, members of the Swiss anti-establishment Dada movement practiced cut-ups -- slicing up sections of text, and then randomly juxtaposing segments back together to create absurd poems that dispensed with conventional narratives.
Ben Arogundade: Digitally Deconstructing Shakespeare Ben Arogundade 2011
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Indeed, it was Burroughs who contended that his cut-ups were more realistic than the work of Jane Austen, because their random nature more closely mirrored the disjointed narrative of everyday life.
Ben Arogundade: Digitally Deconstructing Shakespeare Ben Arogundade 2011
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To present email and text messages as they often feel would create an experimental novel, as if descending from Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs cut-ups.
Joanne McNeil: The Bookfuturist: Where Are the iPhone Addicts and Facebook 'Stalkers' in Contemporary Fiction? Joanne McNeil 2010
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McClain said he requested a playbook and some DVD cut-ups immediately to get started, lining up as a 4-3 middle linebacker for the first time.
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No one can keep a straight face or sit still as the session gets under way—Clift and Monroe are the biggest cut-ups—but in the final picture, serious Hollywood charisma reigns.
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To present email and text messages as they often feel would create an experimental novel, as if descending from Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs cut-ups.
Joanne McNeil: The Bookfuturist: Where Are the iPhone Addicts and Facebook 'Stalkers' in Contemporary Fiction? Joanne McNeil 2010
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Indeed, it was Burroughs who contended that his cut-ups were more realistic than the work of Jane Austen, because their random nature more closely mirrored the disjointed narrative of everyday life.
Ben Arogundade: Digitally Deconstructing Shakespeare Ben Arogundade 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word cut-ups
"1. Articles of hosiery, such as stockings, undershirts, etc., cut and shaped out of a web knitted by machinery, and then sewed together and finished by other machines." --Cent. Dict.
August 10, 2011