"beat-up" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "most beat-up",
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        "superlative"
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      "expansion": "beat-up (comparative more beat-up, superlative most beat-up)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "glosses": [
        "Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair"
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          "disrepair",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly of an object, informal) Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair"
      ],
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        "of an object"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat-up"
}

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    {
      "form": "beat-ups",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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      "expansion": "beat-up (plural beat-ups)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2009, Natasha Robinson, 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry', The Australian, Business section\n“It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "2009, Michael Cook, 'Is Britain’s stem cell crisis a beat-up?', BioEdge\nFew areas of science journalism are more susceptible to frothy beat-ups than stem cell research."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media."
      ],
      "id": "en-beat-up-en-noun-Yk2lSpeg",
      "links": [
        [
          "artificially",
          "artificially"
        ],
        [
          "disingenuously",
          "disingenuously"
        ],
        [
          "manufactured",
          "manufactured"
        ],
        [
          "outcry",
          "outcry"
        ],
        [
          "media",
          "media"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat-up"
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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal nouns",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more beat-up",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most beat-up",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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    {
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        "English informal terms"
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        "Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair"
      ],
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        [
          "disrepair",
          "disrepair"
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        "(chiefly of an object, informal) Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of an object"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat-up"
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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal nouns",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beat-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "2009, Natasha Robinson, 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry', The Australian, Business section\n“It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "2009, Michael Cook, 'Is Britain’s stem cell crisis a beat-up?', BioEdge\nFew areas of science journalism are more susceptible to frothy beat-ups than stem cell research."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media."
      ],
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          "artificially",
          "artificially"
        ],
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          "disingenuously",
          "disingenuously"
        ],
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          "manufactured",
          "manufactured"
        ],
        [
          "outcry",
          "outcry"
        ],
        [
          "media",
          "media"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat-up"
}