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. Stephen Miller:

    The core issue is that all the people in that audience, and millions of patriotic Americans all across this country are tired of being beat up, condescended to, looked down upon, talked down to by members of Congress on the left in Washington, D.C., and their allies in many quarters of the media.

  2. Marco Rubio:

    I'm not running to beat up on other Republicans, ultimately, I'm running to unify this party.

  3. Sarah Palin:

    I've always been a big fan of the Freedom Caucus, i've always felt for them. Because they've been criticized, and beat up, and misunderstood. But they've got the right priorities.

  4. Tennessee Titans:

    During my time in Tennessee, Tennessee Titans went through a lot of different things. I went through coaching changes, went through a broken ankle, some of these things that people would call adversity, at that point in time in my career in 2019, I was tired. I was just kind of tired of all the turnover, was tired of being beat up, and I was n’t playing well, and at the end of the day, this is a performance-based business, and when you’re not playing well, things happen, and I understood that. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

  5. Tim Allens:

    You gotta be real careful around here, you get beat up if you don't believe what everybody believes, it's like [1930s] Germany.

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