Beat up
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
"Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty."
- 2 An act of beating up:; A raid. UK, slang
"These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties."
- 3 An act of beating up:; A beating; a hazing.
"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."
- 4 An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media. Australia, New-Zealand, UK
"To the people of CQ^([Central Queensland]) the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making."
- 5 A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
"The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups."
- 1 To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows. transitive
"I got beaten up by thugs on my way home."
- 2 gather wordnet
- 3 To wake up earlier than. transitive
"I wanted to beat you up this morning and make breakfast for you for once."
- 4 give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression wordnet
- 5 To attack suddenly; to alarm. obsolete
"At breach of wall, or hedge surprise, / She shared i' th' hazard, and the prize: / At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage"
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- 6 To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
"He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly."
- 7 To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.) reflexive
"Don’t beat yourself up over such a minor mistake."
- 8 To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
"It's getting louder and louder Every time I think about you, about you I'll be better off without you, without you I wish my heart would stop, wish my heart would stop Beating me up (whoa, oh, whoa) Beating me up (whoa, oh, whoa) Beating me up"
- 9 To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets. WW2-air-pilots'-usage
- 10 To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
- 11 To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. intransitive
- 12 To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to. dated, intransitive
- 13 To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise. dated, intransitive
"to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers"
- 1 Battered by time and usage; beaten up. slang
Example
More examples"I got beaten up by thugs on my way home."