Definition of "beat-up" [beat-up]

• Slang Damaged or worn because of neglect or heavy use. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Referring to a beat-up offensive line's poor showing in the spring, Holmes says, Our skill positions are stacked at every spot."
• "Except beneath the scribbled-on-walls, beat-up dance floor, and smoky atmosphere lurked a very different bar in the basement."
• "In her hands she clutched a beat-up copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, open to the middle."