What does beat-up mean?

Definitions for beat-up
ˈbitˈʌpbeat-up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. battered, beat-up, beaten-upverb

    damaged by blows or hard usage

    "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford"

  2. beat, beat up, work oververb

    give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

    "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

  3. beat up, drum up, rallyverb

    gather

    "drum up support"

Wiktionary

  1. beat-upnoun

    An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.

  2. beat-upadjective

    Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair

ChatGPT

  1. beat-up

    Beat-up is an adjective describing something that is worn out, damaged, or in poor condition due to age, use, or mistreatment. It can also refer to a person who is exhausted, physically injured, or emotionally drained. The term implies a history of rough or heavy usage.

Anagrams for beat-up »

  1. up-beat

  2. upbeat

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of beat-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of beat-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of beat-up in a Sentence

  1. Eddie George:

    We saw all he had to go through to get to that point as an African-American quarterback. He had to overcome a lot of stigmas and a lot of stereotypes to prove himself in this league, so it goes beyond just the numbers, it goes beyond just what you see on the stat sheet. To see him in the locker room getting taped up and having to take naps because he was tired and beat up and have to get up the next day and go out and fight, that was our culture. Thats who we were.

  2. Ellen Creel:

    What... me fight you? The biggest thing I’ve ever beat up was a cake mix

  3. Quentin Tarantino:

    Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy, i didn't just make a lot of that up. I heard Bruce Lee say things like that, to that effect. People are saying,' Well, Bruce Lee never said Bruce Lee could beat up Muhammad Ali.' Uh, yeah, Bruce Lee did. Not only did Bruce Lee say that, Bruce Lee wife, Linda Lee, said that. In the first biography I ever read was Linda Lee's' Bruce Lee : The Man Only I Knew,' and Linda Lee absolutely said it.

  4. Jeff Goldstein:

    It’s all about the snow and the freezing cold, if we had not been beat up by inclement weather, we would have hit $20 million-plus.

  5. One Trump supporter:

    I got punched, beat up, eggs thrown [at] me. … I got spit on.

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