Get to know Cutup better with 2 real example sentences, the meaning.
Cutup in a sentence
Cutup meaning
- Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.
- A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.
Using Cutup
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes. | A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.
Context around Cutup
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cutup
- In this selection, "cutup" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, style, auto and algorhythm stand out and add context to how "cutup" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include burroughs style cutup with fragments and the auto cutup algorhythm and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cutup" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cutup
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Playtime followed on from Coldcut and Hex’s Synopticon installation, developing the auto-cutup algorhythm, and using other random processes to generate surprising combinations. (24 words)
The results are a weird kind of Burroughs-style cutup, with fragments of human-generated humor chopped up and reassembled with no real understanding of why it’s funny. (29 words)
The results are a weird kind of Burroughs-style cutup, with fragments of human-generated humor chopped up and reassembled with no real understanding of why it’s funny. (29 words)
Playtime followed on from Coldcut and Hex’s Synopticon installation, developing the auto-cutup algorhythm, and using other random processes to generate surprising combinations. (24 words)
Example sentences (2)
The results are a weird kind of Burroughs-style cutup, with fragments of human-generated humor chopped up and reassembled with no real understanding of why it’s funny.
Playtime followed on from Coldcut and Hex’s Synopticon installation, developing the auto-cutup algorhythm, and using other random processes to generate surprising combinations.