Meaning of beat up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
2. An act of beating up:
   UK, slang
3. A raid.
   UK, slang
4. A beating; a hazing.
5. An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
   Australia, New-Zealand, UK
6. A tree planted later than others in a plantation.

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Examples

“Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty.”

“These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups.”

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