Beat Up

Definition: Beat Up

Beat Up

Verb

1. Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students".

2. Gather; "drum up support".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Beat Up

Aid

Second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of, espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits, press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance, countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners of; side with; (cooperate).

Inquiry

Seek a clue, seek a clew; hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace; follow the trail, follow the scent; pursue; beat up one's quarters; fish for; feel for; (experiment).

Opposition

Stem, breast, encounter; stem the tide, breast the tide, stem the current, stem the flood; buffet the waves; beat up against, make head against; grapple with; kick against the pricks; (resist); contend; do battle; (warfare) -with, do battle against.

Preparation

Train; (teach); inure; (habituate); breed; prepare; for; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door to; (facilitate).

Provision

Cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.

Semiliquidity

Verb: inspissate, incrassate; thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up.

Sociality

Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.

Crosswords: Beat Up

Great, I just beat up Santa Claus. (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.)

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

You beat up her corpse! (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers)

I think I'm going to get drunk and beat up some hookers. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

The brutal bungalow of the Blinking Buzzards, a bold bad bunch of blood-thirsty bandits who would break into a bank, blow a battleship to bits or beat up a blue eyed baby blonde. (The 'High Sign'; writing credit: Edward F. Cline; Buster Keaton)

Beat up me body lick off me head top (Shy Guy; performing artist: Diana King)

Beat Up the Town (1957)

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Books

• Beat Up a Cookie (Wwl Mystery) (reference)

• Beat Up a Cookie: An Ellie Bernstein/Lt. Peter Miller Mystery (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• I Saw Hanukkah Harry Beat Up Santa (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Human Rights

Nepal

On April 5, Maoists beat up Bhim Hidhi Hamal of Jumla District, smashing one of his kneecaps. (references)

Minorities

Russia

On September 23, a dozen skinhead youths beat up four yeshiva students in Moscow, and in the city of Orenburg, thugs attacked a group of Orthodox Jewish schoolboys. (references)

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Expressions using "beat up": beat up for recruits ♦ beat up on ♦ beat up one's quarters ♦ to beat up ♦ To beat up and down ♦ To beat up for recruits. Additional references.

Albanian

tund (appal, appall, convulse, dandle, dangle, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, shake, shake up, switch, wag, waggle, wield), sakatoj (cripple, lame, maim, mangle, maul, mutilate), rrah (aim, assess, beat, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضرب ضربا مبرحا, ‏أشبعه ضربا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разбивам (agitate, beat, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), обезпокоявам внезапно, нанасям побой на (assault, buffet, thrash), пребивам (do in, spoil). (various references)

Chinese 

毆�" , �'�" , 揍 (break to pieces). (various references)

Czech

zmlátit (punch, whop), zbít (lick, thrash, trounce, wallop), ušlehat (whip up). (various references)

Danish

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

Dutch

afranselen (beat, clatter, flog, thrash, thresh, whack). (various references)

Esperanto

bastonadi (beat, flog, thrash, whack). (various references)

Finnish

mukiloida (belabour, mug). (various references)

French

tabasser, frapper (beat, beat off, belabour), fouetter. (various references)

German

zusammenschlagen (clap, clash, click, do over, fold up, knock together, rough up, smash, smash up, staved, to smash, work over, wreck). (various references)

Greek 

χτυπώ πολύ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"כות מכות רצח. (various references)

Hungarian

felver (hunt out, rouse, to alarm, to flush, to put up, to restart, to rouse, to run up, to whip, wake up), elver (curry, drub, thrash, to batter about, to curry, to haze, to hide, to lace, to lay it on sy, to leather, to mill, to pepper, to piss away, to run through, to slosh, to thrash, to trounce, to wallop, trounce), elagyabugyál (clobber, lambaste, to curry, to lay it on sy, to whomp, to whump, whang), összever (maul, to knock about, to total). (various references)

Indonesian

menggebuki (pummel). (various references)

Italian

malmenare (ill treat, maul, mishandle, pull about, rough up), conciare (cure, curry, dirty, get dirty, get oneself up, tan). (various references)

Manx

lhie stiagh rish, cur da (allow expenses, append, belabour, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hammer, hit, lash, pass over; article to trade, scold, thrash), cur condoo da, bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatbay upay

Portuguese

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

Romanian

bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), parcurge (cover, cross, do, go through, navigate, pace, promenade, range, run, sail, scour, travel through, traverse, walk). (various references)

Russian 

взбить (shake up, whip), отколотить (lambaste), зверски избивать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ulupati (whip, whisk), pretući (do over), prebiti, izudarati (thrash, thwack, trounce), izmlatiti (lick). (various references)

Spanish

batir (beat, break, churn, drive, flap, hammer, leak, mill, pound, scour, tear, tear up, throw over, tread, tread down, whip up, whir, whirr, whisk up), reclutar (commandeer, conscript, enlist, levy, raise, recruit), dar una paliza (beat, do over, lace in, Lam, lash, lay into, lick, put across, put over, take apart, tank, thrash, thump, trounce, work over), atraer (allure, appeal, appeal to, arrest, attire, attract, beckon, bring in, draw, draw in, engage, entice, fetch, inveigle, invoke, lure, pull, pull in, tempt), asegurar (adjust, affirm, anchor, assert, assure, belay, ensure, fasten, fix, guarantee, insure, latch, make certain, profess, reeve, secure, tread in, underwrite, warrant), aporrear (bang, bang away, beat, blackjack, bludgeon, clobber, club, cosh, cudgel, knock about, pommel, pound, pound on, pummel, slog, slug, thrash, thump, thwack, whack). (various references)

Swedish

klå upp (bash, belabor, belabour, cane, chaw up, clout, dress down, Lam, lambaste, lather, paste, paste up, strafe, wallop, whop). (various references)

Turkish

toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), tekme tokat girişmek, pataklamak (beat, belabor, belabour, flail, give smb. a whacking, give smb. the works, hide, knock galley-west, lace into, lambaste, lay into, whale, whop, work over), hırpalamak (batter, bruise, ill treat, ill use, jolt, knock about, knock around, maltreat, maul, misuse, punish, ruffle, work over, worry), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), çırpmak (beat, churn, clap, cream, fold, mill, scramble, shake, shake up, stir up, whip, whip up, whisk). (various references)

Turkmen 

яenзmek (beat on). (various references)

Ukrainian

калічити (cripple, hamstring, lame, maim, mutilate), вербувати (enlist, recruit). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: upbeat.

-1 letter: beaut, taupe, tubae.

-2 letters: abet, abut, bate, beat, beau, beta, bute, pate, peat, tabu, tape, tepa, tuba, tube.

-3 letters: ape, apt, ate, bap, bat, bet, but, eat, eau, eta, pat, pea, pet, pub, put, tab, tae, tap, tau, tea, tub, tup, uta.

-4 letters: ab, ae, at, ba, be, et, pa, pe, ta, up, ut.

+1 letter: upbeats.

+2 letters: abrupter, pubertal.

+3 letters: abruptest, imputable, reputable, reputably.

+4 letters: abruptness, bankrupted, computable, disputable, permutable, subchapter, subprimate, unbaptized.

+5 letters: perambulate, perturbable, prepubertal, protuberant, subchapters, subprimates, supportable, unadaptable, unadoptable, unpalatable, unprintable, unstoppable.