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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: beat-up

English

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Alternative forms

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• beat-up (adjective, noun)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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beat up (third-person singular simple present beats up, present participle beating up, simple past beat up, past participle beaten up or (US colloquial) beat up)

1. (transitive) 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.
   • 2022 December 3, Drachinifel, 5:25 from the start, in HMS Jervis Bay - Guide 312‎[1], archived from the original on 16 May 2023:If anyone wondered why the liner went straight at the panzerschiff, Fegen's reasoning was clear. The 11-inch guns could hit him at long range, but the short-barrelled 6-inch on his own ship couldn't range out quite as far. So, to start beating up Admiral Scheer, he had to get closer.
2. (transitive) To wake up earlier than. I wanted to beat you up this morning and make breakfast for you for once.
3. (obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2: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
   • 1770, John Belfour, A New History of Scotland, pages 137–138: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.
   • 1777 June 7, Anthony Wayne, letter to Sharp Delany from the Camp at Mount Prospect 7th June 1777, in 1893, Charles Stillé, Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental Army, page 6: Our people are daily gaining Health Spirits and Discipline — the spade & pick axe throw'd aside — for the British Rebels to take up — they notwithstanding affect to hold us cheap and threaten to beat up our Quarters — if we don’t beat up theirs first which is in Contemplation, this in time.
   • 1839, Jean Froissart, chapter CXXVI, in Thomas Johnes, transl., Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and The adjoining Countries, page 367:"We know for certain that their army does not consist of more than three thousand men, including all sorts." Sir Henry Percy, on hearing this, was greatly rejoiced, and cried out, "To horse! to horse! for by the faith I owe my God, and to my lord and father, I will seek to recover my pennon, and to beat up their quarters this night."
   • 1948, F. Spencer Chapman, The Jungle Is Neutral, published 2003, pages 272–275:Pa Blanken tells me that the Japs beat up our camp a month ago and we have lost all our heavy gear and moved up into the hills - he does not know where. Hell! No casualties, however. [...] Our material losses were very serious. The Japs had found a rucksack containing all our money, our medicines, including all our vital quinine, a copy of our signals plan, and a number of maps. […] It seems probable that the Japs spotted our camp from the air. They certainly knew its exact position and came straight to it.
4. To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
   • 2008 October 29, on Real Rescues (a British TV program): He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly.
5. (reflexive) 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.
6. To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
   • 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Dave Bassett, Brian West, “Beating Me Up”, in Fight Song‎[2], performed by Rachel Platten:It's getting louder and louderEvery time I think about you, about youI'll be better off without you, without youI wish my heart would stop, wish my heart would stopBeating me up (whoa, oh, whoa)Beating me up (whoa, oh, whoa)Beating me up
7. (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
8. To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
9. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
10. (intransitive, dated) To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
11. (intransitive, dated) To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise. to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers

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Synonyms

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• (give a severe beating to): do over, rough up, work over

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Derived terms

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• beat 'em up
• beat-up

Translations

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Armenian: ծեծել (hy) (cecel), գանահարել (hy) (ganaharel), քացու տակ գցել (kʻacʻu tak gcʻel), ծեծ տալ (cec tal) Azerbaijani: döymək (az) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: zmlátit Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: hakata (fi), antaa turpaan (fi); saada selkäänsä (to be beaten up) French: flanquer une tripotée, tabasser (fr) Galician: brear (gl), zorregar, abalar (gl), mallar (gl), bourar (gl), fostregar, apalambrar, apadumar (gl), sostainear Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: verprügeln (de), schlagen (de), aufmischen (de) (slang) Hebrew: הרביץ (he) Irish: greasáil Italian: picchiare (it), rompere le ossa Khmer: វាយ (km) (viey), វាយដំ (viey dɑm), វាយដំច្រំធាក់ (viey dɑm cram tʰeak) Korean: 구타하다 (ko) (gutahada) Latin: mulcō Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: bił ndzíłtsʼin Norwegian: banke opp (no) Polish: skuwać (pl) impf, skuć (pl) pf, pobijać impf, pobić (pl) pf Portuguese: espancar (pt) Russian: избива́ть (ru) impf (izbivátʹ), изби́ть (ru) pf (izbítʹ) Slovak: zbiť, zmlátiť Spanish: apalear (es), pegar (es), coñacear (es), percutir (es), tundir (es), tundear (es), vapulear (es), aporrear (es), percutar (es), aporracear (es), sopapear (es), paporrear (es), apalear (es), zurrar (es), solfear (es), sacarle el ancho (Peru), sacar la mierda (Andes), caerle golpe (receive a beating) Swedish: slå ner (sv), klå upp (sv), misshandla (sv) Tagalog: bugbugin Thai: ทุบตี (th), ทำร้าย (th) (tam-ráai), กระทืบ (th) (grà-tʉ̂ʉp) (colloquial) Vietnamese: đánh đập (vi)

to attack suddenly; to alarm

Finnish: tehdä yllätyshyökkäys, yllättää (fi) German: überfallen (de)

to cause injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up

Finnish: teloa (fi) German: zurichten (de) Tagalog: mambugbog, mabugbog

to feel guilty and accuse oneself over something

Finnish: murehtia (fi) French: se mettre la rate au court-bouillon (fr) Galician: marteirar German: fertigmachen (de) (reflexive) Spanish: martirizar (es), preocuparse (es) Thai: โทษ (th) (tôot)

military: to repeatedly bomb a target

Finnish: kurittaa (fi)

to get something done

Finnish: saada valmiiksi German: es aufnehmen mit

nautical: to sail to windward

Finnish: luovia (fi) German: kreuzen (de) Russian: лави́ровать (ru) impf (lavírovatʹ)

to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise

Finnish: haalia (fi) German: die Werbetrommel rühren (idiom)

See also

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• beat to a pulp

Adjective

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beat up (comparative more beat up, superlative most beat up)

1. (slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.

Usage notes

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• Not to be confused with upbeat.

Synonyms

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• beat, beaten up
• dilapidated

Noun

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beat up (plural beat ups)

1. A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
   • 2009, Thomas Cody Mullenaux, Numbskull‎[3], page 257:Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty.
2. An act of beating up:
   1. (UK, military slang) A raid.
      • 1987, John W. Gordon, The Other Desert War: British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940-1943, page 86:These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties.
   2. A beating; a hazing.
      • 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: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.
      • 2010, John Golley, Jet, page 14: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.
3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
   • 1995 September, David Jones, “1000 Users on a 486”, in AUUG ′95 & Asia-Pacific World Wide Web ′95 Conference & Exhibition: Conference Proceedings, page 106:To the people of CQ[Central Queensland] the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making.
   • 2007, Pauline Nguyen, Luke Nguyen, Mark Jensen, Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart, page 189:Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.
   • 2009, Ken Gelder, Paul Salzman, After The Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007, page 95:These debates can be difficult to navigate and are all too easily reduced to simplistic reflections of individual taste and vulnerable to journalistic beat-ups.
   • 2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims "a beat up" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB.
4. (forestry) A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
   • 2003, K. J. Foot, M. Hislop, S. McNeilly, “The effect of green composted waste on tree establishment on landfill”, in Heather M. Moore, Howard R. Fox, Scott Elliott, editors, Land Reclamation: Extending The Boundaries: Proceedings Of The 7th International Conference, Runcorn, UK 13-16 May 2003, page 216:The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups.

Synonyms

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• (act of beating up): hazing

Anagrams

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• up-beat, upbeat

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