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- noun Plural form of
cutup .
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Examples
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While it's true that American Idol similarly involves its audience in choosing a winner, I don't think anyone would tune in were it not for the hijinks of Randy, Paula and Simon, whose cutups and comments prompt as much of the voting as do the contestants themselves.
Archive 2008-11-01 Roger Sutton 2008
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While it's true that American Idol similarly involves its audience in choosing a winner, I don't think anyone would tune in were it not for the hijinks of Randy, Paula and Simon, whose cutups and comments prompt as much of the voting as do the contestants themselves.
Would you care? Roger Sutton 2008
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His relationship with Burroughs might have been shaken by the revelation of the cutups, but it was easy for him to restore his old affection for Bill.
The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010
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His relationship with Burroughs might have been shaken by the revelation of the cutups, but it was easy for him to restore his old affection for Bill.
The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010
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Some experimental poets pried open their spamfolders, spied inside some chatrooms, and discovered raw material for Burroughsian cutups therein.
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Overall, the vision is dark and edgy, with themes of fetishism, domination, virility, sexual identity and "hegemonic masculinity" turning up like bad dreams -- and mirrored in fashions from the archives of some of Europe's most notorious catwalk cutups, including Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Walter Van Beirendonck.
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Part 2 of the Anniversary show – More listmadness and mania; bizarre babynames and lyrics; Ken and Squip drop by (literally), comments from Australia and Canada, strange list songs and cutups, a little help from our Franz and 20 more ways to lose your audience.
Radio Clash 55: 1 Year Anniversary Listmania Tim and Kirk Show, Part Two 2005
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William Burroughs speaking about cutups (from Naropa archives)
Radio Clash Show 9 2005
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I can't wait to hear what's up with "those cutups over at the Dept. of Homeland Security" or "those Halliburton dudes."
Brought to You by Those Wacky Characters at Campbell’s Soup - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006
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It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Archive 2006-04-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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