| Sentence | We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class. |
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| Definition | ( intransitive , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive idiomatic ) To behave like a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic clown or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clown jokester (a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jokester cut-up ); to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut-up misbehave ; to act in a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misbehave playful , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/playful comical , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comical boisterous , or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boisterous unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unruly |
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