Usually means: Beat or thrash someone severely.
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  1. duff up: Collins English Dictionary
  2. duff up: Wiktionary
  3. duff up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. duff up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. duff up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. duff up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. duff up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (duff up)

▸ verb:  (UK, transitive, slang) To beat up, to give a beating to.

Similar:
duff, dunt, dunch, dush, dunsh, dap up, donder, doust, Dowse, daff, more...

Opposite:
soothe, calm, pacify, comfort, appease

Types:
mess up, screw up, muck up, botch up, bungle, more...

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Similar:
duff, dunt, dunch, dush, dunsh, dap up, donder, doust, Dowse, daff, more...

Opposite:
soothe, calm, pacify, comfort, appease

Types:
mess up, screw up, muck up, botch up, bungle, more...



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