Meaning

3 senses
  1. (informal, transitive)To damage.

    He banged up his new car last night.

    zerdeppern, demolieren

    разби́тьrazbítʹ, разру́шитьrazrúšitʹ

    damage or destroy as if by violence

  2. (informal, transitive)To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.

    He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.

  3. (intransitive, slang)To inject a recreational drug.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom did a bang-up job.

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  2. Tom got a little banged up.

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  3. I got pretty banged up.

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  4. Tom got banged up pretty badly.

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  5. Tom banged up his knee playing hockey.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to damage:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to damage:

Forms

bangs up, banging up, banged up, banged up
Base formbang up · to bang up
3rd person singularbangs up
Present participlebanging up
Past simplebanged up
Past participlebanged up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybang up
he, she, itbangs up

Past simpleLesson

all personsbanged up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave banged up
he, she, ithas banged up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bang up

Phrasal verbs

8 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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