Cut-up in a sentence as a noun

Racter was more of a William S. Burroughs cut-up program, it mostly randomizes and regurgitates it's input.

"The point is, they got something out there and while it may have just been a "cut-up plastic chair attached with wheels and bolts", it gave mobility to hundreds of thousands of people who would have otherwise not had it.

It's like the literature world's cut-up/exquisite corpse work: if you can disassemble an original like this and put it back together in a way that we humans are inclined to extract meaning from, does that change the meaning that you perceive in the original work?

Cut-up definitions

noun

someone who plays practical jokes on others

See also: prankster trickster tricker hoaxer