beat up
verb
- strike repeatedly
Wiktionary
adj
- Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
noun
- A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
“Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty.”
- An act of beating up:
“These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties.”
- An act of beating up:
“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.”
“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.”
- An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
“To the people of CQ^([Central Queensland]) the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making.”
“Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.”
- A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
“The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups.”
verb
- To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
“I got beaten up by thugs on my way home.”
“You don't beat people up, so that you can live in a society where nobody would beat you up.”
- To wake up earlier than.
“I wanted to beat you up this morning and make breakfast for you for once.”
- To attack suddenly; to alarm.
“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”
“On this occasion, the diligent prior o St. Andrews assembled 600 horse, with which he assailed the French, beat up their quarters, intercepted their provisions, and cut off their straggling parties.”
- 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.”
- To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
“Don’t beat yourself up over such a minor mistake.”
- 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”
- To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
- To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
- To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
“to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers”