"beater-upper" meaning in English

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      "form": "beater-uppers",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 August 11, “Barrymore Beaten Up While Working For His Creditors”, in St. Petersburg Times",
          "text": "Yesterday he was doing just that by submitting to a thorough beating up at the hands of Miss Lupe Velez, who's probably the best beater-upper of either sex in Hollywood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Hearings [Agriculture dept.]",
          "text": "These are the muggers and beater-uppers, and car thieves and burglars and rapists, assaulters, and so on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 May 27, “A pug and a gentleman”, in The Sydney Morning Herald",
          "text": "[…] and, in the best sporting tradition, the Gordon player gratefully helped his beater-upper back to his feet.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "One who beats people up."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "beats people up",
          "beat up"
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  "word": "beater-upper"
}

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      "form": "beater-uppers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "beater-upper (plural beater-uppers)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 August 11, “Barrymore Beaten Up While Working For His Creditors”, in St. Petersburg Times",
          "text": "Yesterday he was doing just that by submitting to a thorough beating up at the hands of Miss Lupe Velez, who's probably the best beater-upper of either sex in Hollywood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Hearings [Agriculture dept.]",
          "text": "These are the muggers and beater-uppers, and car thieves and burglars and rapists, assaulters, and so on.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 May 27, “A pug and a gentleman”, in The Sydney Morning Herald",
          "text": "[…] and, in the best sporting tradition, the Gordon player gratefully helped his beater-upper back to his feet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who beats people up."
      ],
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        [
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        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "beater-upper"
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