banged up

English

Verb

banged up

  1. simple past and past participle of bang up

Adjective

banged up (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Spending time in prison or jail.
    Synonyms: behind bars, incarcerated, imprisoned, put away
    My uncle has been banged up for ten years now; I haven't seen him in five.
  2. (informal) Physically injured or wounded.
    Synonyms: hurt, injured; see also Thesaurus:wounded
    • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 164:
      "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."
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