banged up
English edit
Verb edit
- simple past and past participle of bang up
Adjective edit
banged up (not comparable)
- (informal) Spending time in prison or jail.
- My uncle has been banged up for ten years now; I haven't seen him in five.
- (informal) Physically injured or wounded.
- He is banged up: he suffers strain to left shoulder.
Synonyms edit
- (pending time in prison or jail): behind bars, incarcerated, imprisoned, put away
- (physically injured or wounded): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also Thesaurus:wounded
Quotations edit
- "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 Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 164)