banged up

banged up

1. simple past and past participle of bang up

banged up (not comparable)

1. (informal) Spending time in prison or jail.

   My uncle has been banged up for ten years now; I haven't seen him in five.

2. (informal) Physically injured or wounded.

   He is banged up: he suffers strain to left shoulder.

• (pending time in prison or jail): behind bars, incarcerated, imprisoned, put away
• (physically injured or wounded): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also Thesaurus:wounded

• "It does hurt, not just my ankle but all over. I'm banged up like hell. But I'm not, you know, hurt. Like needing an X Ray or the infirmary or whatever." - "Middle Age: A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 164)