Usually means: Worn out from extensive use.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word beat-up:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. beat-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beat-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beat-up, beat-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beat-up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beat-Up, Beat-up, beat-up: Wordnik
  7. beat-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beat-up: Wiktionary
  9. beat-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. beat-up: Dictionary.com
  11. beat-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. beat-up: Rhymezone
  13. beat-up: FreeDictionary.org
  14. beat-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. beat-up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. beat-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  17. beat-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat-up, beat-up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Beat-up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (chiefly of an object, informal) Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.

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