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carve up

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carve up
1. carve up sth • carve sth up to cut cooked meat into pieces:
▪ Dad carved up the turkey.
2. carve up sth • carve sth up to divide land into smaller parts - used to show disapproval:
▪ Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them.
▪ Much of the English countryside has been destroyed, carved up by ugly motorways.
3. carve sb up • carve up sb BrE informal to drive past another car going in the same direction, then turn in front of it too quickly, so that it has to slow down suddenly:
▪ Some idiot carved me up on the motorway.
■ SIMILAR TO: ↑cut up
4. carve sb up • carve up sb informal to seriously wound someone with a knife:
▪ A couple of years ago five gang members got carved up in a fight outside a pub.

Carve Carved Sth Sb Informal Cut Cooked Meat