banged up en · ADJ
Meanings
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(informal, not-comparable) Spending time in prison or jail.
My uncle has been banged up for ten years now; I haven't seen him in five.
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(informal, not-comparable) Physically injured or wounded.
"It does hurt, not just my ankle but all over. I'm banged up like hell. But I'm not, you know, hurt. Like needing an X Ray or the infirmary or whatever."
2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 164:“Well I can tell you why I didn’t. It wasn’t necessary, Mr. Finch. She was mighty banged up. Something sho‘ happened, it was obvious.”
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
Synonyms
imprisoned · gimped · tore up · fucked up · crocked · hurt · behind bars · jacked up · hurt · wounded · incarcerated · injured · vulnerated · messed up · put away · imbrued · injured · banged up
Translations (1)
es maltrecho (hurt)