banged up
adj1
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.
- “Well I can tell you why I didn’t. It wasn’t necessary, Mr. Finch. She was mighty banged up. Something sho‘ happened, it was obvious.”1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
- "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."2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 164: