TO BEAT UP

Definition: TO BEAT UP

TO BEAT UP

1. To attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Multilingual Slang

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Crosswords: TO BEAT UP

It was originally conceived in 1922 as an excuse to beat up on the Irish (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You're about to beat up a kid with a bat (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer)

: I reject the challenge, 'cause Balboa is no challenge, but I'll be happy to beat up on him some more (Rocky III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone)

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High Tech

• Who Wants to Beat Up A Millionaire (Jewel Case) (reference)

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Expressions using "TO BEAT UP": To beat up and down ♦ To beat up for recruits. Additional references.

Danish

krydse (crossing, mating, to beat up to windward, to cross, to crossbreed). (various references)

Dutch

opkruisen (to beat, to beat up to windward), klanten najagen (to beat up customers). (various references)

Finnish

yrittää hankkia asiakkaita (to beat up customers). (various references)

French

tirer des bordées (to beat up to windward), rabattre des clients (to beat up customers). (various references)

German

Schlaege machen (to beat up to windward), Kunden nachlaufen (to beat up customers), Kreuzen (cross, cruise, hybridize, interbreed, tack, to cross, to cruise, to hybridize, to interbreed, to traverse, traverse). (various references)

Greek 

αναστρέφω προς τον άνεμο (to beat up to windward). (various references)

Hungarian

toboroz (accrete, recruit, to drum up, to enlist, to recruit), felhajt (head back, mop up, put up, roll up, round up, seek, send up, to cock, to flush, to hem, to kite, to mop up, to quaff, to quaff off, to ride up, to riffle, to round up, to roust out, to rout out, to turn up, tuck up, turn back, turn up), összever vkit (to bash sy about, to commit a mayhem on sy, to knock sy's head off). (various references)

Italian

correre bordate (to beat up to windward). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay eatbay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

perder a clientela (to beat up customers), afastar os clientes (to beat up customers). (various references)

Spanish

dar bordadas (beat, to beat up to windward, to tack). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: battue, outate, outeat, teapot, tubate, upbeat.

-3 letters: about, battu, beaut, betta, buteo, butte, petto, putto, taupe, tubae.

-4 letters: abet, abut, atop, auto, bate, batt, beat, beau, beta, boat, bota, bott, bout, bute, butt, pate, peat, poet, pout, putt, tabu, tape, tate, taut, teat, tepa, toea, tope, tote, tout, tuba, tube.

-5 letters: abo, ape, apt.

+3 letters: protuberant.

+4 letters: perturbation.

+5 letters: perturbations, postdebutante, protuberantly.