Cut up
Cut up verb - To engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior.
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Synonyms for Cut up
Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
Both terms in one sentence
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Koobus has Wikus held dead to rights, talking about how he would love seeing Wikus cut up, but instead wants to kill Wikus right then and there.
Source: Film / District 9 -
The big drawback is, of course, that if someone gets a hold of your heart-box they can kill you as easily as they would cut up a steak.
Source: Soul Jar -
Speaking of the first film, Burt Wilson is making last-minute arrangements for the yellow zombie, which he and his employees cut up earlier when Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain doesn't kill it, to be completely obliterated by the oven.
Source: Kill It with Fire
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