English
Adjective
banged up
- idiom Spending time in prison or jail.
#: My uncle has been banged up for ten years now; I haven't seen him in five.
- idiom Physically injured or wounded.
#: He is banged up: he suffers strain to left shoulder.
Quotations
"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." - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by w:Joyce Carol Oates|Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 164)
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