bash up

verb

bashed up; bashing up; bashes up

transitive verb

chiefly British, informal

: to attack (someone) physically : to hit (someone) repeatedly

Umpires being lampooned or even bashed up [=beaten up] in schools, college and league cricket is hardly rare.

—Ayaz Memon

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bash up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup