bash sb up
Frequency: 3.80.7 per million words
To attack someone and injure them by hitting them.
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Examples (10)
- A local gang threatened to bash him up if he didn't pay.
- The witness saw three men bashing the victim up in the alley.
- The shopkeeper was badly bashed up during the robbery.
- If you talk to the police, they'll come back and bash you up.
- He's in the hospital because someone bashed him up last night.
- Getting bashed up for no reason left him traumatized.
- They bashed the poor guy up just for his wallet.
- I'm warning you, stay away from my sister or my brothers will bash you up.
- He claimed that the security guards had bashed him up in the back room.
- Why would anyone want to bash an old man up like that?