Definition of beat up Beat up
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What does beat up mean?
WordNet
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| beat up - gather; "drum up support" | ||
| drum up, rally | ||
| pull in, collect of trains; move into (a station); "The bullet train drew into Tokyo Station" | ||
| beat up - 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" | ||
| beat, work over | ||
| strong-arm use physical force against; "They strong-armed me when I left the restaurant" | ||
| soak heat a metal prior to working it | ||
| pistol-whip beat with a pistol | ||
| belabor, belabour attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students" | ||
| rough up treat violently; "The police strong-armed the suspect" | ||
| flog, welt, trounce, lash, lather, strap, slash, whip beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" | ||
| cane, flog, lambast, lambaste beat with a cane | ||
| kayo, knock cold, knock out knock unconscious or senseless; "the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds" | ||
| flail, lam, thresh, thrash move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing" | ||
| clobber, baste, batter strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" | ||
| larrup, spank, paddle give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | ||
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Wiktionary 
- beat up (Noun)
A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up. - beat up (Noun)
An act of beating up. - beat up (Noun)
A raid. - beat up (Noun)
1987, John W. Gordon, The Other Desert War: British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940-1943, page 86. - beat up (Noun)
These hit-and-run Range Desert LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties. - beat up (Noun)
A beating; a hazing. - beat up (Noun)
2008, Josh Frank, Charlie Buckholtz, In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre, page 243. - beat up (Noun)
We gave him wedgies and did mock beat-ups. We never hurt him or intended to hurt him, but he went along with our tough guy sort of image, and took it tongue in cheek and got it. - beat up (Noun)
2010, John Golley, Jet, page 14. - beat up (Noun)
Frequently on guest nights beat ups were held by the Third Term, and cadets of the First Term and, sometimes, the Second Term were singled out individually. - beat up (Noun)
An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media. - beat up (Noun)
A tree planted later than others in a plantation. - beat up (Adjective)
Battered by time and usage; beaten up .
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beat up
To give a beating to; subject to a punishment or an act of aggression.
